Seizure clusters

Evidence-based neurology checklist on seizure clusters: Clinical features These are 3 or more seizures occurring within 24 hours They predict intractable epilepsy Risk factors Treatment Synonyms

Clinical features

  • These are 3 or more seizures occurring within 24 hours
  • They predict intractable epilepsy

Risk factors

Treatment

Synonyms

References

  1. Fung FW, Libenson MH, Bolton J, et al. Seizure clustering during presurgical electroencephalographic monitoring in children. Epilepsy Behav 2018; 80:291-295. 
  2. Haut SR, Shinnar S, Moshé SL. Seizure clustering: risks and outcomes. Epilepsia 2005; 46:146-149.
  3. Chen B, Choi H, Hirsch LJ, et al. Prevalence and risk factors of seizure clusters in adult patients with epilepsy. Epilepsy Res 2017; 133:98-102. 
  4. Komaragiri A, Detyniecki K, Hirsch LJ. Seizure clusters: a common, understudied and undertreated phenomenon in refractory epilepsy. Epilepsy Behav 2016; 59:83-86. 
  5. Jafarpour S, Hirsch LJ, Gaínza-Lein M, Kellinghaus C, Detyniecki K. Seizure cluster: definition, prevalence, consequences, and management. Seizure 2018; doi: 10.1016/j.seizure.2018.05.013 (Epub ahead of print).
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