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Pan Afr Med J
June 2024
Faculté de Médecine et d'Odontostomatologie de Bamako, Bamako, Mali.
Diagnosing a non-epileptic seizure is difficult in the absence of a video electroencephalogram. The expert commission of the international league against epilepsy proposes a diagnostic approach allowing the diagnosis to be made according to a degree of certainty with or in the absence of a video electroencephalogram. Our objective was to determine the hospital frequency of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures in the absence of video-electroencephalogram.
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May 2023
Service de Neurologie, CHU Liège, Belgique.
Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures resemble epileptic seizures but their pathophysiological mechanisms differ. Despite being quite frequent, they are often misunderstood, regularly leading to a misdiagnosis and therapeutic errors. The objective of this article is to provide a short review of the current knowledge about this pathology.
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November 2023
Servicio de Geriatría, Hospital de Emergencias Enfermera Isabel Zendal, Madrid, España.
Arq Neuropsiquiatr
November 2022
Çukurova University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Epilepsy Unit, Adana, Türkiye.
Background: Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) resemble epileptic seizures and are often misdiagnosed as epilepsy.
Objective: To investigate the frequency of PNES and to calculate the economic burden of the patients who admitted to video-electroencephalographicmonitoring (VEM) to obtain a diagnosis of epilepsy in order to apply for disability retirement.
Methods: The present retrospective study included 134 patients who required disability reports between 2013 and 2019 and had their definite diagnoses after VEM.
Arq Neuropsiquiatr
November 2022
Universidade Federal do Paraná, Hospital de Clínicas, Serviço de Epilepsia e Eletrencefalografia, Curitiba PR, Brazil.
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