Epilepsy, dissociative seizures, and mixed: associations with time to video-EEG

Video-electroencephalographic monitoring (VEM) is critical to the evaluation and treatment of patients with medication resistant epilepsy, defined by failure of two adequate trials of tolerated, appropriately-chosen antiseizure medications (ASM) at appropriate doses [1,2]. While some studies demonstrated that early surgical therapy for epilepsy may be more effective, the time from first seizure to VEM (TVEM) remains around 20 years and VEM remains underutilized [3 –20]. For comparison, it typically takes 9 years to meet the definition of medication resistant epilepsy [13].

Source: Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy - February 8, 2021 Category: Neurology Authors: Wesley T. Kerr, Xingruo Zhang, Chloe E. Hill, Emily A. Janio, Andrea M. Chau, Chelsea T. Braesch, Justine M. Le, Jessica M. Hori, Akash B. Patel, Corinne H. Allas, Amir H. Karimi, Ishita Dubey, Siddhika S. Sreenivasan, Norma L. Gallardo, Janar Bauirjan, E Source Type: research