Diagnostic yield of sequential routine EEG and extended outpatient video-EEG monitoring

• Published in: Clinical neurophysiology Vol. 119; no. 1; pp. 190 - 196
• Main Authors: Modur, Pradeep N, Rigdon, Barbara
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Shannon Elsevier Ireland Ltd 01.01.2008; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Diagnosis, Differential; EEG; Electrodiagnosis. Electric activity recording; Electroencephalography - statistics & numerical data; Epilepsy; Epilepsy - diagnosis; Epilepsy - physiopathology; Epilepsy - psychology; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Headache. Facial pains. Syncopes. Epilepsia. Intracranial hypertension. Brain oedema. Cerebral palsy; Humans; Investigative techniques, diagnostic techniques (general aspects); Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Monitoring, Physiologic - methods; Nervous system; Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes); Neurology; Outpatient; Outpatients; Seizure; Video-EEG monitoring; Videotape Recording - methods; Videotape Recording - statistics & numerical data; Video-EEG monitoring; Seizure; Outpatient; EEG; Epilepsy; Human; Nervous system diseases; Electrophysiology; Electroencephalography; Cerebral disorder; Electrodiagnosis; Convulsion; Sequential; Central nervous system disease; Diagnosis; Neurological disorder; Localization; Monitoring

Abstract Objective To investigate the diagnostic yield of outpatient video-EEG monitoring (OVEM) in patients with suspected but unconfirmed epilepsy. Methods OVEM data, comprised of 20-min video-EEG (REEG) followed by 4 h of video-EEG monitoring (EXM), from 179 consecutive patients were retrospectiv...