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Simple partial status epilepticus in Chinese adults.

Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China.
Journal of Clinical Neuroscience (impact factor: 1.25). 12/2005; 12(8):902-4. DOI:10.1016/j.jocn.2004.11.011 pp.902-4
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ABSTRACT Simple partial status epilepticus (SPSE) is uncommon compared with generalized tonic-clonic status epilepticus. We evaluated the clinical profile and predictors of poor outcome in a group of Chinese patients with this condition. We identified 32 patients above the age of 14 years with SPSE from a large urban hospital over an eleven-year period. Factors for poor outcome, defined as death or morbidity, were analyzed. The most common underlying causes were due to cerebrovascular disease (46.9%), CNS infection (15.6%), metabolic derangement (12.5%) and tumor (12.5%). At 30 days from the onset of seizures, 13(40.5%) patients had recovered fully and seven (21.9%) had died. Poor outcome was associated with the presence of an acute symptomatic injury.

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Keywords

32 patients
 
acute symptomatic injury
 
CNS infection
 
common
 
eleven-year period
 
generalized tonic-clonic status epilepticus
 
large urban hospital
 
morbidity
 
poor outcome
 
seizures
 
Simple partial status epilepticus
 
SPSE
 
tumor