epilepticus

Pull quote: "Our mortality rate is 2-3 times that of the general population, between the seizure-related accidents, the suicides, the meds getting screwed up, SUDEP and status epilepticus."

Friday! sihaya09 2009

Click here to read about Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy and status epilepticus.

Friday! sihaya09 2009

This progresses into "advanced stimulation" in which unresponsiveness, hyperreflexia, status epilepticus, irregular respirations (Cheynes-Stokes), malignant arrhythmias, and hypotension occurs.

Cocaine Toxicity 2010

Three days after her transfer, the news grew more ominous: An EEG showed that Donna's brain was being ravaged by continuous seizures, a condition known as nonconvulsive status epilepticus.

Doctor's diagnosis drew laughs, but it saved woman's life Sandra G. Boodman 2010

Prolonged status epilepticus has a mortality rate of 56 percent, and no patient with NMDA encephalitis and seizures as long as hers had ever been reported, Johnson said.

Doctor's diagnosis drew laughs, but it saved woman's life Sandra G. Boodman 2010

Three days after her transfer, the news grew more ominous: An EEG showed that Donna's brain was being ravaged by continuous seizures, a condition known as nonconvulsive status epilepticus.

Doctor's diagnosis drew laughs, but it saved woman's life Sandra G. Boodman 2010

Prolonged status epilepticus has a mortality rate of 56 percent, and no patient with NMDA encephalitis and seizures as long as hers had ever been reported, Johnson said.

Doctor's diagnosis drew laughs, but it saved woman's life Sandra G. Boodman 2010

Seizures can be fatal, especially the rare status epilepticus, a continuous convulsion lasting longer than 10 minutes.

In the Grip of the Unknown 2009

One of Devinsky's patients is a teenage boy who showed up at the hospital in December with status epilepticus of unknown origin, although Devinsky suspects a brain lesion from an undiagnosed infection.

In the Grip of the Unknown 2009

If a seizure is longer than 30 minutes and there ` s a high risk of death, it ` s a life - threatening situation, that ` s called status epilepticus.

CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2009 2009