title: [Diagnostic value of suspect epilepsy by means of 24 hour of ambulatory electroencephalogram].
abstract: 106 cases of suspect epilepsy random observed by means of 24 hr tape recording of AEEG were given in this paper. Among them 57 cases. (accounting for 53.77%) are lightly abnormal including 42 cases (accounting for 39.62%) recorded as epilepsy burst. Comparing with EEG: Among 93 cases 25 cases as lightly abnormal by EEG (accounting for 26.88%), 52 cases recorded as lightly abnormal by AEEG (accounting for 55.91%) (P less than 0.005); arising rate of epilepsy burst 11 cases were recorded by EEG (accounting for 11.82%), 41 cases by AEEG (accounting for 44.01%) (P less than 0.005). The record of epilepsy burst patients monitored showed that positive rates of transient consciousness loss (8/15, 53.33%) and convulsions (9/19, 47.39%) are the highest. Abnormal burst time by AEEG is during sleeping (54 cases observed accounting for 77.14%) with positive rate highest at the same time, most accorded in the front temporal area (29/92, 31.52%). The author therefore, suppose that AEEG is more accurate to find abnormal bast wave or epilepsy burst wave than EEG because of superior condition in recording time to EEG and could offer more objective diagnosis reference for suspect epilepsy patients who are difficult to be checked clinically because of low positive rate of EEG.
authors.affiliation: China Railway Building hospital, Beijing.
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male