Katherine H Noe

..To determine the rate of medical complications from long-term video-electroencephalographic (EEG) monitoring for epilepsy...

..PNES are not only less common in men, but also more challenging to recognize in the clinic, and even when suspected more difficult to confirm with vEEG...

..It is uncertain if interventions such as oral suctioning, lateral decubitus positioning, or oxygen administration reduce the risk of aspiration during vEEG...

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..Epilepsy that is medically refractory may respond to epilepsy surgery or vagus nerve stimulation...

..Given its other strengths combined with better diagnostic validity performance, the PAI may be the better personality assessment measure for use in distinguishing patients with epilepsy from those with psychogenic seizures in the EMU...

..Seizures are a complication of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH)...

..If no diagnosis is made after the second EMU admission, subsequent admissions are unlikely to produce a definitive diagnosis...

..No long-term adverse sequelae were noted, however, if unrecognized, iatrogenic seizures could lead to unnecessary exclusion from definitive surgical intervention for refractory epilepsy...

..The presence of PIM bias generally increases positive predictive power of SOM and SOM-C but decreases negative predictive power...

..A performance gap exists in the appropriate counseling regarding driving for PWE that has potentially significant safety and legal implications...

..We provide likelihood ratios for scores on RC1, FBS-r, and NUC that can be used by the clinician to calculate posttest odds and probability of nonepileptic seizures using the base rate of nonepileptic seizures in his/her population...

..Identification of clinical features that reliably distinguish PNES from ES would be valuable in acute care settings, for patients that have coexisting disorders, and those with multiple event types...

..The ideal efficacy outcome after surgery for medically refractory epilepsy is seizure freedom without need for antiepileptic drug (AED) therapy but the appropriate timing of AED withdrawal and other prognostic factors remain unclear...

..3%) of the nonhospitalized patients. This retrospective survey provides insights into how code blues are called on hospitalized versus nonhospitalized patients for seizure-like events...

..05, Fisher's exact t test). These findings delineate a pathological substrate and provide compelling evidence that excessive catecholamine release is the mechanism responsible for death in SE...

..Pius IX's life holds lessons for modern-day epilepsy advocacy...

..Accurate knowledge of driving laws by health care workers and patients has the potential to minimize liability and improve public safety and quality of care...

..5). The findings highlight the importance of obtaining appropriate evaluation for underlying malignancy in adults with new-onset seizures as well as provide more information to the patient for prognosis and counseling...

..To describe clinical characteristics and immunotherapy responses in patients with autoimmune epilepsy...

..Available evidence is reviewed, and guidelines for management are provided...

..Agents designed to inhibit glutamate activity show promise both in the treatment of status epilepticus and in the prevention of associated neuronal injury...