Estimating the period prevalence of non-convulsive status epilepticus among comatose adults at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia.

Clayton T BubackOmar K SiddiqiInnocent TitimaOlga SelioutskiGretchen L Birbeck

Published in: Epilepsia open (2019)

If the association between IEDs and NCSE among monitored populations in developed settings holds true for SSA, a projected 17%-21% of comatose African adults have NCSE. No clinical characteristics identified those at risk.

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