Unlabelled: To establish the ability of somatosensory-evoked potentials (SEPs) to detect neurological damage in neonatal patients with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) treated with therapeutic hypothermia (TH). Retrospective study including 84 neonates ≥ 36 weeks of gestational age with HIE and TH with SEPs performed in the first 14 days of life. SEPs from the median nerve were performed after completion of TH.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Continuous spikes and waves during slow sleep (CSWS) is an EEG pattern that appears during childhood, and is often associated with cognitive impairment. It can appear in the course of epileptic syndromes, as well as in benign epilepsy. The aim of this study is to analyse epidemiological and clinical characteristic of patients with CSWS, in order to describe possible predictive factors in their outcome.
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