Epilepsy, dissociative seizures, and mixed: Associations with time to video-EEG.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Video-electroencephalographic monitoring (VEM) is a core component to the diagnosis and evaluation of epilepsy and dissociative seizures (DS)-also known as functional or psychogenic seizures-but VEM evaluation often occurs later than recommended. To understand why delays occur, we compared how patient-reported clinical factors were associated with time from first seizure to VEM (TVEM) in patients with epilepsy, DS or mixed.

Methods

We acquired data from 1245 consecutive patients with epilepsy, VEM-documented DS or mixed epilepsy and DS. We used multivariate log-normal regression with recursive feature elimination (RFE) to evaluate which of 76 clinical factors interacting with patients' diagnoses were associated with TVEM.

Results

The mean and median TVEM were

SUBMITTER: Kerr WT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7979505 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature