Recommendation for a definition of acute symptomatic seizure

By E. Beghi, A. Carpio, L. Forsgren, D. Hesdorffer, K. Malmgren, Josemir W Sander, T. Tomson, W. Hauser. Epilepsia, 2010

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Purpose:  To consider the definition of acute symptomatic seizures for epidemiological studies, and to refine the criteria used to distinguish these seizures from unprovoked seizures for specific etiologies.

Subfields: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Infectious Diseases, Psychiatry and Mental health

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1. E. Beghi
2. D. Thurman
3. C. Begley
4. Samuel Wiebe
5. J. Buchhalter
6. D. Hesdorffer
7. A. Berg
8. D. Ding

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• Standards for epidemiologic studies and surveillance of epilepsy (2011, background): “Seizures due to such acute and transient conditions have also been described as provoked or acute symptomatic epileptic seizures (Commission on Epidemiology and Prognosis of the International League Against Epilepsy, 1993; Beghi et al., 2010).”