Value of clinical features to differentiate refractory epilepsy from mimics: a prospective longitudinal cohort study.
Angelo LabateL MumoliA CurcioG TripepiG D'ArrigoE FerlazzoUmberto AgugliaC IndolfiA QuattroneAntonio GambardellaPublished in: European journal of neurology (2018)
This prospective cohort study identifies rE mimics who are at high risk of morbidity and mortality. rE starting in adulthood should raise a high suspicion of cardiac syncope. Brain MRI is accurate in differentiating rE from other conditions.
Keyphrases
- contrast enhanced
- magnetic resonance imaging
- pulmonary embolism
- resting state
- white matter
- left ventricular
- genome wide
- depressive symptoms
- high resolution
- diffusion weighted imaging
- cross sectional
- magnetic resonance
- computed tomography
- functional connectivity
- early life
- heart failure
- cerebral ischemia
- mass spectrometry
- atrial fibrillation
- blood brain barrier