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SUBMITTER: Sakellariou DF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5862105 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sakellariou Dimitris Fotis DF Kostopoulos George Kostantinos GK Richardson Mark Philip MP Koutroumanidis Michalis M
Epilepsia open 20170821 4
We studied slow (≤2.5 Hz) nonevolving generalized periodic epileptiform discharges (GPEDs) in the electroencephalogram (EEG) of comatose patients after cardiac arrest (CA) in search of evidence that could assist early diagnosis of possible hypoxic nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) and its differentiation from terminal brain anoxia (BA), which can present with a similar EEG pattern. We investigated the topography of the GPEDs in the first post-CA EEGs of 13 patients, using voltage-mapping, ...[more]