title: Role of long-term EEG monitoring in diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy.
abstract: The value of long-term EEG recordings for diagnosis and differential diagnosis of epilepsy is described. It is emphasized that long-term EEF monitoring increases the scope of EEG techniques and improves the diagnostic value of standard EEG recordings providing up to 90% positive diagnostic information. In particular, the value of ambulatory cassette recording is stressed. Allowing quantification of epileptic activity recorded in real-life situation, useful information not available by means of standard EEG recordings can be obtained. Recording and scoring all-night sleep, it enables studying abnormalities of sleep patterns. In addition the value of long-term EEG recordings in therapy and control of epileptic patients is pointed out and discussed.
authors.affiliation: Neurologische Universitätsklinik Graz, Osterreich.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Logar
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Walzl
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lechner
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D000927:Anticonvulsants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000187:drug effects / Q000503:physiopathology; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000187:drug effects / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017286:Polysomnography / Q000295:instrumentation; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation; D012894:Sleep Stages / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D000927:Anticonvulsants