JLE

Epileptic Disorders

MENU

Importance of access to epilepsy monitoring units during the COVID-19 pandemic: consensus statement of the International League Against Epilepsy and the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology Volume 23, numéro 4, August 2021

  • [1] Krysl D., Beniczky S., Franceschetti S., Arzimanoglou A. The COVID-19 outbreak and approaches to performing EEG in Europe. Epileptic Disord. 2020;22:548-554. 5
  • [2] Tatum W.O., Rubboli G., Kaplan P.W., Mirsatari S.M., Radhakrishnan K., Gloss D. Clinical utility of EEG in diagnosing and monitoring epilepsy in adults. Clin Neurophysiol. 2018;129:1056-1082. 5
  • [3] Kobulashvili T., Kuchukhidze G., Brigo F., Zimmermann G., Höfler J., Leitinger M. Diagnostic and prognostic value of noninvasive long-term video-electroencephalographic monitoring in epilepsy surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis from the E-PILEPSY consortium. Epilepsia. 2018;59:2272-2283.
  • [4] Uldall P., Alving J., Hansen L.K., Kibaek M., Buchholt J. The misdiagnosis of epilepsy in children admitted to a tertiary epilepsy centre with paroxysmal events. Arch Dis Child. 2006;91:219-221.
  • [5] Asano E., Pawlak C., Shah A., Shah J., Luat A.F., Ahn-Ewing J. The diagnostic value of initial video-EEG monitoring in children - review of 1,000 cases. Epilepsy Res. 2005;66:129-135.
  • [6] McBride A.E., Shih T.T., Hirsch L.J. Video-EEG monitoring in the elderly: a review of 94 patients. Epilepsia. 2002;43:165-169.
  • [7] Chadwick D., Smith D. The misdiagnosis of epilepsy. BMJ. 2002;324:495-496.
  • [8] Ferrie C.D. Preventing misdiagnosis of epilepsy. Arch Dis Child. 2006;91:206-209.
  • [9] Lafrance W.C. Jr., Benbadis S.R. Avoiding the costs of unrecognized psychological nonepileptic seizures. Neurology. 2006;13:1620-1621. 66
  • [10] Nightscales R., McCartney L., Auvrez C., Tao G., Barnard S., Malpas C.B. Mortality in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures. Neurology. 2020;95:e643-e652. 6
  • [11] Wiebe S., Blume W.T., Girvin J.P., Eliasziw M. Effectiveness and Efficiency of Surgery for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Study Group. A randomized, controlled trial of surgery for temporal-lobe epilepsy. N Engl J Med. 2001;345:311-318. 5
  • [12] Engel J. Jr., McDermott M.P., Wiebe S., Langfitt J.T., Stern J.M., Dewar S. Early Randomized Surgical Epilepsy Trial (ERSET) Study Group. Early surgical therapy for drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy: a randomized trial. JAMA. 2012;307:922-930. 9
  • [13] Dwivedi R., Ramanujam B., Chandra P.S., Sapra S., Gulati S., Kalaivani M. Surgery for drug-resistant epilepsy in Children. N Engl J Med. 2017;377:1639-1647. 17
  • [14] Devinsky O., Hesdorffer D.C., Thurman D.J., Lhatoo S., Richerson G. Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: epidemiology, mechanisms, and prevention. Lancet Neurol. 2016;15:1075-1088. 10
  • [15] Lowerison M.W., Josephson C.B., Jetté N., Sajobi T.T., Patten S., Williamson T. Association of levels of specialized care with risk of premature mortality in patients with epilepsy. JAMA Neurol. 2019;76:1352-1358. 11
  • [16] Hargreaves D.S., Arora S., Viveiro C., Hale D.R., Ward J.L., Sherlaw-Johnson C. Association of quality of paediatric epilepsy care with mortality and unplanned hospital admissions among children and young people with epilepsy in England: a national longitudinal data linkage study. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2019;3:627-635.
  • [17] Granbichler C.A., Oberaigner W., Kuchukhidze G., Ndayisaba J.P., Ndayisaba A., Taylor A. Decrease in mortality of adult epilepsy patients since 1980: lessons learned from a hospital-based cohort. Eur J Neurol. 2017;24:667-672.
  • [18] Joint proposals by the Japan Epilepsy Society, Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, The Japan Neurosurgical Society, Japanese Society of Neurology, Japanese Society of Child Neurology, and Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology. Alert for EEG examinations to prevent COVID-19 infection. Available at: https://www.ilae.org/files/dmfile/JES-Alert-for-EEG-examinations.pdf. Latest accessed: February 6, 2020.
  • [19] Gélisse P., Rossetti A.O., Genton P., Crespel A., Kaplan P.W. How to carry out and interpret EEG recordings in COVID-19 patients in ICU? Clin Neurophysiol. 2020;131:2023-2031.
  • [20] San-Juan D., Jiménez C.R., Camilli C.X., de la Cruz Reyes L.A., Galindo E.G.A., Burbano G.E.R. Guidance for clinical neurophysiology examination throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Latin American chapter of the IFCN task force - COVID-19. Clin Neurophysiol. 2020;131:1589-1598.