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lifeskim:mentions | |
pubmed:issue |
2
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pubmed:dateCreated |
2006-9-4
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pubmed:abstractText |
Patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) mimicking status epilepticus (PNES-status) are at risk of iatrogenic complications. Our aim was to assess whether the population of patients with PNES who develop PNES-status are distinguishable. Retrospectively, we identified patients with PNES-status and compared them with patients with PNES without status and with patients with electroclinical status epilepticus (SE). Of 49 patients with PNES, 9 had PNES-status (18.2%) and 40 had PNES only. Compared with patients with PNES, subjects with PNES-status had taken fewer than three antiepileptic medications (P=0.016), had more than one event per week (P=0.026), were more likely to be admitted emergently to the monitoring unit (P=0.007), had shorter long-term monitoring (LTM) stays (P=0.003), and tended to be diagnosed sooner after initial presentation (P=0.058). Use of fewer than three antiepileptic drugs and emergent admission were independent predictors of PNES-status classification on logistic regression. Of 154 patients with epilepsy, 8 had SE during LTM (5.2%), significantly fewer than the proportion with PNES-status relative to PNES (P=0.008); the only clinical variable distinguishing these two groups was a baseline lower seizure frequency among the patients with epileptic seizures (P=0.045). Our results suggest that patients with PNES-status have features that differentiate them from patients with PNES without status and, to a lesser extent, from patients with epileptic seizures.
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pubmed:language |
eng
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pubmed:journal | |
pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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pubmed:chemical | |
pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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pubmed:month |
Sep
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pubmed:issn |
1525-5050
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pubmed:author | |
pubmed:issnType |
Print
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pubmed:volume |
9
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pubmed:owner |
NLM
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pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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pubmed:pagination |
335-8
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pubmed:dateRevised |
2006-11-15
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pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:16872909-Adult,
pubmed-meshheading:16872909-Anticonvulsants,
pubmed-meshheading:16872909-Diagnosis, Differential,
pubmed-meshheading:16872909-Electroencephalography,
pubmed-meshheading:16872909-Female,
pubmed-meshheading:16872909-Humans,
pubmed-meshheading:16872909-Logistic Models,
pubmed-meshheading:16872909-Male,
pubmed-meshheading:16872909-Psychophysiologic Disorders,
pubmed-meshheading:16872909-Retrospective Studies,
pubmed-meshheading:16872909-Seizures,
pubmed-meshheading:16872909-Status Epilepticus,
pubmed-meshheading:16872909-Video Recording
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pubmed:year |
2006
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pubmed:articleTitle |
Clinical characteristics of psychogenic nonepileptic seizure status in the long-term monitoring unit.
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pubmed:affiliation |
Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. bdworetzky@partners.org
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pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
Comparative Study
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