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Panayiotopoulos, C P

Pages: 1 –19

[Epileptic seizures and epileptic syndromes have high prevalence and incidence rates affecting all ages and all races of both sexes. They constitute an important part of the everyday clinical practice of general and specialist health care professionals.]

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Chapter 2Epileptic seizures and their classification

Panayiotopoulos, C P

Pages: 21 –63

[Epileptic seizures are numerous and diverse in their presentation, pathophysiology, age relationships, prevalence and triggering factors (Tables 2.1–2.3). Table 2.1Adapted with permission from the Commission of Classification and Teminology of the ILAE (1981).11Table 2.2Adapted with permission...

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Chapter 3Status epilepticus

Panayiotopoulos, C P

Pages: 65 –95

[Status epilepticus (SE) is a broad term comprising all types of epileptic seizures that fail to stop at their usual time course and that last for over 30 min (Table 3.1).1Table 3.1Adapted with permission from Engel (2001)20 and Engel (2006)1 of the ILAE Task Force on Classification and...

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Chapter 4Imitators of epileptic seizures

Panayiotopoulos, C P

Pages: 97 –134

[‘Non-epileptic seizures’ or ‘non-epileptic paroxysmal disorders’ are the currently preferred descriptive names for the common and numerous, diverse paroxysmal clinical events that mimic or look like but are not epileptic seizures.1–3]

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Chapter 5Epileptic syndromes and their classification

Panayiotopoulos, C P

Pages: 135 –146

[This chapter provides the classification of epileptic syndromes as reported by the relevant ILAE Commission. Individual syndromes, comments on their classification and personal views are detailed in Chapters 8–17 of this book.]

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Chapter 6EEG and brain imaging

Panayiotopoulos, C P

Pages: 147 –171

[The EEG, which is entirely harmless and relatively inexpensive, is the most important investigative tool in the diagnosis and management of epilepsies. However, for the EEG to provide accurate assessments, it must be properly performed by experienced technologists and carefully studied and...

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Chapter 7Principles of therapy in the epilepsies

Panayiotopoulos, C P

Pages: 173 –235

[The traditional aim of therapy in epilepsies is total freedom from seizures with no clinically significant adverse effects. This has now been broadened to include optimal outcomes of health-related quality of life with regard to physical, mental, educational, social and psychological functioning...

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Chapter 8Neonatal epileptic seizures and neonatal epileptic syndromes

Panayiotopoulos, C P

Pages: 237 –258

[Neonatal epileptic seizures occur from birth to the end of the neonatal period.1–9 This is the most vulnerable of all the other periods of life for the development of epileptic seizures, particularly in the first 1 or 2 days from birth. Neonatal seizures differ from those of older children and...

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Chapter 9Idiopathic epileptic seizures and syndromes in infancy

Panayiotopoulos, C P

Pages: 259 –274

[Idiopathic epileptic seizures and syndromes in infancy are important to recognise because they are age related and age limited. They do not occur in adults, are of excellent prognosis and anti-epileptic drug (AED) treatment is often unnecessary.]

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Chapter 10Epileptic encephalopathies in infancy and early childhood

Panayiotopoulos, C P

Pages: 275 –326

[Epileptic encephalopathies are severe brain disorders in which the epileptic electrical discharges may contribute to progressive psychomotor dysfunction.1–14 They start at an early age and manifest with electrographic EEG paroxysmal activity that is often aggressive; seizures that are commonly...

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