Table 1.
Variable | Value |
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(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.