Epilepsy awareness among school-aged students in Poland.

Objective: Epilepsy can be a well-controlled condition with only a slight impact on patients' life. Lack of knowledge within society contributes to children with epilepsy experiencing discrimination and hostility. The aim of this study was to evaluate the awareness of epilepsy and general views on people struggling with this disease among school-aged children.

The PURPLE N study: objective and perceived nutritional status in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy.

Purpose: To obtain information on characteristics, management, current objective nutritional status and perception of nutritional status of children with cerebral palsy (CP) from healthcare professionals (HCPs) and caregivers.

Materials And Methods: A detailed survey of several items on eight main topics (general characteristics, motor function, comorbidities, therapies, anthropometry, feeding mode and problems and perceived nutritional status) was developed and tested for the study. Correlation between nutritional status and Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) levels was assessed using continuous variables (Z-scores for weight-for-age, height-for-age, weight-for-height, and body mass index-for-age), and categorical variables (being malnourished, stunted, or wasted).

Peri-ictal headaches in the paediatric population - prospective study.

Introduction: The co-occurrence of headache and epilepsy is well-documented in the adult population. The aim of the prospective study was to analyse in the paediatric population the correlations between the types of peri-ictal headaches and types of seizures. Furthermore, an attempt was made to find trends in characteristic features of peri-ictal headaches.

Convulsive status epilepticus management in adults and children: Report of the Working Group of the Polish Society of Epileptology.

Introduction: The Working Group was established at the initiative of the General Board of the Polish Society of Epileptology (PSE) to develop an expert position on the treatment of convulsive status epilepticus (SE) in adults and children in Poland. Generalized convulsive SE is the most common form and also represents the greatest threat to life, highlighting the importance of the choice of appropriate therapeutic treatment.

Aim Of Guideline: We present the therapeutic options separately for treatment during the early preclinical (>5-30min), established (30-60min), and refractory (>60min) SE phases.

Thermoregulation disorders of central origin - how to diagnose and treat.

Fever is a common symptom in the Intensive Care Unit. At least half of febrile episodes are caused by infection. Excluding infectious etiology and other non-infectious causes of fever, especially in patients with central nervous system (CNS) disorders, attention should be paid to disturbances of thermoregulatory centre.

Frontal aslant tract projections to the inferior frontal gyrus.

Background: Frontal aslant tract (FAT) is a white matter bundle connecting the pre-supplementary motor area (pre-SMA) and the supplementary motor area (SMA) with the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG). The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the anatomical variability of FAT.

Materials And Methods: Total number of fibres and the lateralisation index (LI) were calculated.

Diffusion tensor tractography imaging in pediatric epilepsy - A systematic review.

Purpose: Recent years brought several experimental and clinical reports applying diffusion tensor tractography imaging (DTI) of the brain in epilepsy. This study was aimed to evaluate current evidence for adding the DTI sequence to the standard diagnostic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) protocol in pediatric epilepsy.

Material And Methods: Rapid and qualitative systematic review (RAE, Rapid Evidence Assessment), aggregating relevant studies from the recent 7 years.

Towards a new treatment paradigm for ruptured blood blister-like aneurysms of the internal carotid artery? A rapid systematic review.

Background And Purpose: Owing to their peculiar features and rare occurrence, ruptured blood blister-like aneurysms (BBAs) of the internal carotid artery are challenging by both surgical and endovascular approaches and their proper management is uncertain. We therefore aimed to define the currently optimal treatment of ruptured BBAs in terms of mortality, outcome, rebleeding, and recurrence.

Method: An in-depth search of electronic databases, gray literature and internet resources for ruptured BBAs was performed and complemented by data retrieval during neurosurgical congresses.

Current treatment of convulsive status epilepticus - a therapeutic protocol and review.

The management of status epilepticus (SE) has changed in recent years. Substantial differences exist regarding the definition and time frame of a seizure, which has been operationally defined as lasting for 5 min. Not only have many new intravenous drugs, such as levetiracetam and lacosamide been introduced but other routes of administration, such as intranasal or buccal administration for midazolam, are also being developed.

Quantification of white matter fibre pathways disruption in frontal transcortical approach to the lateral ventricle or the interventricular foramen in diffusion tensor tractography.

Pathologies occupying the interventricular foramen (foramen of Monro - FM) or the anterior part of lateral ventricle (LV) are accessed by the transcortical or transcallosal route. As severing of rostral corpus callosum has been deemed inferior to cortical incision, the approaches through various points of frontal lobe have been developed. Superior (F1), middle (F2) frontal gyrus or occasionally superior frontal sulcus are used as an entry of neurosurgical corridor.

Long-term efficacy of valproate versus lamotrigine in treatment of idiopathic generalized epilepsies in children and adolescents.

Purpose: In order to estimate and compare the long-term effectiveness of lamotrigine (LTG) versus valproate (VPA) monotherapy in treatment of newly diagnosed idiopathic generalized epilepsies (IGE) the following study was performed.

Methods: Medical records of 214 children and adolescents suffering from IGE were analyzed. 132 of them were on VPA monotherapy, 82 on LTG.

[Sporadic hemiplegic migraine in a 14-year-old boy--a case report].

Hemiplegic migraine is a specific form of migraine with aura including hemiparesis. It is a rare condition of unclear aetiology. The authors present a case of a 14-year-old boy with persistent foramen ovale, suffering from sporadic hemiplegic migraine.

Correlation of neuroradiological, electroencephalographic and clinical findings in cortical dysplasias in children.

Introduction: Cortical dysplasias (CD) are defined as malformations of cortical development. They result from impairment of neuronal proliferation, migration and differentiation. CD are common pathological substrates in patients with early-onset childhood epilepsy and/or developmental delay as well as neurological signs.