Seizure symptoms and ambulatory EEG findings: incidence of epileptiform discharges.

Aims: Ambulatory video-EEG monitoring has been utilized as a cost-effective alternative to inpatient video-EEG monitoring for non-surgical diagnostic evaluation of symptoms suggestive of epileptic seizures. We aimed to assess incidence of epileptiform discharges in ambulatory video-EEG recordings according to seizure symptom history obtained during clinical evaluation.

Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study.

Outcome of ambulatory video-EEG monitoring in a ˜10,000 patient nationwide cohort.

Purpose: We evaluate outcome of in-home diagnostic ambulatory video-EEG monitoring (AVEM) performed on a nationwide cohort of patients over one calendar year, and we compare our findings with outcomes of inpatient adult and pediatric VEM performed during the same year at two academic epilepsy centers.

Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study. We obtained AVEM outcome data from an independent ambulatory-EEG testing facility.