Publications by authors named "Luan Cortes"
Unlabelled: Data on status epilepticus (SE) in older inpatients is limited.
Aim: To assess SE characteristics and etiologies, and identify risk factors for SE in a cohort of hospitalized patients.
Methods: We selected patients aged ≥ 60 years with late-onset seizures from a tertiary center.
Background: Multimorbidity is common among adults and associated with socioeconomic deprivation, polypharmacy, poor quality of life, functional impairment, and mortality.
Objectives: To identify the frequency of multimorbidity among older adults inpatients with neurological disorders (NDs), stratify clusters of chronic comorbidities associated with NDs in degrees, and verify whether multimorbidity was associated with demographic data, readmission, long length of hospital stay (LOS), and hospital mortality in this population.
Methods: We enrolled patients aged ≥60 years successively admitted to a tertiary medical center with NDs between January 1, 2009, and December 31, 2010.
Background: Data on prescribing patterns of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) to older adult inpatients are limited.
Objective: To assess changes in prescribing patterns of AEDs to older adult inpatients with late-onset epilepsy between 2009-2010 and 2015-2019, and to interpret any unexpected patterns over the 2015-2019 period.
Methods: Patients aged ≥60 years with late-onset epilepsy from a tertiary center were selected.
Objective: Population ageing is a global phenomenon, and life expectancy in Brazil is growing fast. Epilepsy is the third most important chronic neurological disorder, and its incidence is higher among elderly patients than in any other segment of the population. The prevalence of epilepsy is greater among inpatients than in the general population and it is related to long length of hospital stay (LOS), which is associated with hospital mortality and higher healthcare costs.
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