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. 2017 May 2;19(2):236–238. doi: 10.5853/jos.2016.01669

Table 1.

Patient characteristics, demographics and distribution of Status epilepticus subtypes

Variable Value
(A) Clinical characteristics and distribution of SE subtypes among all included patients (n=275)*
 Presumed etiology of SE
  AIS 9 (3)
  Old stroke 26 (9)
  Epilepsy 32 (12)
  Brain tumor 30 (11)
  Intracranial hemorrhage 26 (10)
  Alcohol or drug withdrawal 18 (7)
  Traumatic brain injury 16 (6)
  Infectious encephalitis 16 (6)
  Neurodegenerative disease 14 (5)
  Post brain surgery 13 (4)
  Acute metabolic derangement 12 (4)
  Others 32 (12)
  Unknown 31 (11)
 Presumed etiology grouped according to the International League Against Epilepsy [4]
  Acute etiology 124 (45)
  Remote etiology 68 (25)
  Progressive central nervous system disorders 23 (8)
  Unprovoked/unknown etiology 60 (22)
 SE types
  NCSE in coma 87 (32)
  Complex partial SE 113 (41)
  Convulsive SE 58 (21)
  Simple partial SE 13 (5)
  Absence SE 4 (1)
(B) Demographics, baseline characteristics of patients with NCSE and AIS (n=9)
 Age, median years (range) 75 (58–84)
 Sex, female 5 (56)
 Glucose, mmol/L, median (range) 7 (6–9.9)
 Creatinine, mmol/L, median (range) 110 (43–428)
 Modified Charlson Comorbidity Index, median (range) 2 (0–6)
 History of prior ischemic stroke 2 (22)
 Lesion size on DWI-MRI)
  Small: 1-10 cm3 4 (44)
  Medium: 11-100 cm3 3 (33)
  Large: >100 cm3 2 (22)
  Cortical involvement 9 (100)

Values are presented as n (%) unless otherwise indicated.

SE, status epilepticus; AIS, acute ischemic strok; NSCE, nonconvulsive SE.

*

(A) Clinical characteristics and distribution of SE subtypes among all patients included in the study;

(B) Baseline and neuroimaging characteristics of the nine patients with AIS in close temporal association to nonconvulsive SE (NCSE);

Prior ischemic stroke defined as: Prior acute focal neurological deficit(s) attributable to focal brain ischaemia, lasting >24 hours.