Early seizures and risk of epilepsy and death after intracerebral haemorrhage: The MUCH Italy.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

It is unclear which patients with non-traumatic (spontaneous) intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) are at risk of developing acute symptomatic seizures (provoked seizures occurring within the first week after stroke onset; early seizures, ES) and whether ES predispose to the occurrence of remote symptomatic seizures (unprovoked seizures occurring more than 1 week after stroke; post-stroke epilepsy, PSE) and long-term mortality.

Patients and methods

In the setting of the Multicenter Study on Cerebral Haemorrhage in Italy (MUCH-Italy) we examined the risk of ES and whether they predict the occurrence of PSE and all-cause mortality in a cohort of patients with first-ever spontaneous ICH and no previous history of epilepsy, consecutively hospitalized in 12 Italian neurol

SUBMITTER: Pezzini A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11418551 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature