Status Epilepticus A Clinical Perspective /

The recent explosive growth in the study of status epilepticus (SE), an epileptic seizure that threatens to produce new seizures, has shown that SE is not a single disease, but arises from different substrates of the brain and comprises multifaceted illnesses. In Status Epilepticus: A Clinical Persp...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Drislane, Frank W. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2005.
Series:Current Clinical Neurology
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • General Topics
  • History of Status Epilepticus
  • Types of Status Epilepticus
  • Differential Diagnosis of Status Epilepticus
  • Epidemiology of Status Epilepticus
  • The Electroencephalogram in Status Epilepticus
  • Generalized Convulsive and Focal Status Epilepticus
  • Generalized Convulsive Status Epilepticus
  • Focal Status Epilepticus
  • Basic Considerations
  • Cellular Physiology of Status Epilepticus
  • Cellular Damage and the Neuropathology of Status Epilepticus
  • Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
  • Clinical Presentations of Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
  • Cognitive Manifestations of Status Epilepticus
  • Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
  • Treatment
  • Treatment of Generalized Convulsive Status Epilepticus
  • Treatment of Refractory Status Epilepticus
  • Treatment of Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
  • Pediatric and Neonatal Status Epilepticus
  • Status Epilepticus in Children
  • Status Epilepticus in Neonates.