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11721104

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-11-26
pubmed:abstractText
Stroke is one of the most frequent causes of seizures in adulthood. Subcortical infarcts have been associated with post-stroke epileptic seizures, although less frequently than cortical ischaemia. We studied 113 patients from a hospital stroke registry. The patients had subcortical non-lacunar infarcts (64 striatocapsular infarcts, 13 thalamic, 8 choroidal artery territory, 28 internal border zone and white matter medullary infarcts) and at least 1 year of follow-up. Only 4 patients (3.5%) with striatocapsular infarcts suffered an epileptic seizure. Two seizures occurred within the first 24 h, 1 within the first month and 1 within the first year of stroke onset. Emboligenic cardiac conditions were significantly more common in patients with seizures (difference 37%; 95% confidence intervals 2-72%). Subsequently to subcortical infarct, epileptic seizures are infrequent, tend to occur early after stroke and have a very low 1-year recurrence risk.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1015-9770
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2001 S. Karger AG, Basel
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
12
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
331-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Epileptic seizures following subcortical infarcts.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisboa, Portugal.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article