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17292636

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-4-27
pubmed:abstractText
A retrospective case note study of the aetiology and course of children in convulsive status epilepticus (CSE) admitted to a large paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) was undertaken between January 1999 and April 2004. Status epilepticus was defined as a prolonged (>30 min) tonic-clonic seizure irrespective of whether the seizure had stopped prior to admission to PICU. During this period, 137 (74 male) children aged 1 month to 15 years were admitted to PICU with 147 episodes of status epilepticus. Forty-seven of the 137 children (34%) were admitted following a prolonged febrile seizure. Thirty-eight of the 137 children (28%) had a remote symptomatic cause for the CSE, 24 (18%) were admitted for an acute symptomatic cause and 15 (11%) were admitted with an acute exacerbation of a pre-existing idiopathic/cryptogenic epilepsy. Six children had a progressive encephalopathy and no cause was identified in the remaining 7 of the 137 children (5%). Forty-nine (36%) of the 137 children had pre-existing epilepsy. The mean duration of CSE was 44 min. Forty-nine (36%) children admitted to PICU who had received a benzodiazepine with either phenobarbital or phenytoin, required further treatment to terminate the presenting episode of CSE. Forty-two of these 49 were treated with thiopentone anaesthesia and the remaining 7 with a continuous infusion of midazolam, successfully terminating status in all. No child died. Of the 70 children considered to be previously neurologically and developmentally normal prior to admission, only 1 child demonstrated a new gross neurological abnormality at the time of latest follow-up. Seven patients (5%) developed new or de novo epilepsy.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1059-1311
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
16
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
305-12
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Aetiology, course and outcome of children admitted to paediatric intensive care with convulsive status epilepticus: a retrospective 5-year review.
pubmed:affiliation
The Roald Dahl EEG Unit, Department of Neurology, Eaton Road, L12 2AP Liverpool, United Kingdom.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article