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Volume 17, Issue 6 , Pages 535-548 , September 2008

Status epilepticus in epileptic patients: Related syndromes, precipitating factors, treatment and outcome in a video-EEG population-based study

C. Di Bonaventura
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Policlinico Umberto I°, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
- Corresponding author at: Department of Neurological Sciences, Policlinico Umberto I°, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Viale dell’Università 30, 00185 Rome, Italy. Tel.: +39 06 49914727; fax: +39 06 49914302.
F. Mari
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Policlinico Umberto I°, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
- I.R.R.C.S. Neuromed, Pozzilli (IS), Italy
N. Vanacore
- National Centre of Epidemiology, Surveillance and Health Promotion, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy
J. Fattouch
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Policlinico Umberto I°, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
A. Zarabla
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Policlinico Umberto I°, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
A. Berardelli
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Policlinico Umberto I°, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
- I.R.R.C.S. Neuromed, Pozzilli (IS), Italy
M. Manfredi
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Policlinico Umberto I°, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
- I.R.R.C.S. Neuromed, Pozzilli (IS), Italy
M. Prencipe
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Policlinico Umberto I°, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
A.T. Giallonardo
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Policlinico Umberto I°, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
- I.R.R.C.S. Neuromed, Pozzilli (IS), Italy

Received 3 April 2007 ,Revised 4 December 2007 ,Accepted 29 February 2008.

Classification of SE population according to a recently published proposal.¹¹

Classification of SE population according to a recently published proposal.¹¹
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Algorithm showing therapeutic strategies in the patients with status epilepticus included in the study. SE, status epilepticus; BDZ, benzodiazepines; PHT, phenytoin; TPS, thiopental sodium; i.v., intr

Algorithm showing therapeutic strategies in the patients with status epilepticus included in the study. SE, status epilepticus; BDZ, benzodiazepines; PHT, phenytoin; TPS, thiopental sodium; i.v., intravenous administration; other, in patients with a late-onset Rasmussen Encephalitis an immunotherapy was planned.
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