Yield of emergent neuroimaging in children with new-onset seizure and status epilepticus

Highlights • Retrospective cohort of children with new-onset seizure with status epilepticus. • Evaluated yield of neuroimaging for urgent or emergent intracranial pathology. • 8.5% of children found to have urgent or emergent intracranial pathology. • 27% of urgent or emergent findings were not pre...

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Published inSeizure (London, England) Vol. 35; pp. 4 - 10
Main Authors Lyons, Todd W, Johnson, Kara B, Michelson, Kenneth A, Nigrovic, Lise E, Loddenkemper, Tobias, Prabhu, Sanjay P, Kimia, Amir A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2016
Subjects
Adolescent
Child
Child, Preschool
Children
Cohort Studies
Databases, Factual - statistics & numerical data
Female
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Infant
Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods
Male
Neuroimaging
Neurology
Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
Seizure
Seizures - diagnosis
Statistics, Nonparametric
Status epilepticus
Status Epilepticus - diagnosis
Tomography, X-Ray Computed - methods
computed tomography
Neuroimaging
magnetic resonance imaging
International League Against Epilepsy
ILAE
MRI
acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis
IQR
interquartile range
emergency department
CT
ADEM
Seizure
Children
Status epilepticus
ED
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Summary:Highlights • Retrospective cohort of children with new-onset seizure with status epilepticus. • Evaluated yield of neuroimaging for urgent or emergent intracranial pathology. • 8.5% of children found to have urgent or emergent intracranial pathology. • 27% of urgent or emergent findings were not present on initial non-contrast CT scan and were not discovered until subsequent MRI.
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ISSN:1059-1311
1532-2688
DOI:10.1016/j.seizure.2015.12.009