Recommendation for a definition of acute symptomatic seizure

Summary Purpose: To consider the definition of acute symptomatic seizures for epidemiological studies, and to refine the criteria used to distinguish these seizures from unprovoked seizures for specific etiologies. Methods: Systematic review of the literature and of epidemiologic studies. Results:...

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Published in:	Epilepsia (Copenhagen) Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 671 - 675
Main Authors:	Beghi, Ettore, Carpio, Arturo, Forsgren, Lars, Hesdorffer, Dale C., Malmgren, Kristina, Sander, Josemir W., Tomson, Torbjorn, Hauser, W. Allen
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2010 Wiley-Blackwell
Subjects:	Acute Disease Acute symptomatic seizure Biological and medical sciences Cross-Sectional Studies Definition Diagnosis, Differential Epidemiology Headache. Facial pains. Syncopes. Epilepsia. Intracranial hypertension. Brain oedema. Cerebral palsy Humans Medical sciences Metabolic diseases Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes) Neurologi Neurology Other metabolic disorders Pigments (porphyrias, hyperbilirubinemias...) Seizures - diagnosis Seizures - epidemiology Seizures - etiology Nervous system diseases Convulsion Acute symptomatic seizure Epilepsy Central nervous system disease Definition Neurological disorder Epidemiology Recommendation Cerebral disorder
ISSN:	0013-9580, 1528-1167, 1528-1167
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