[Clinical presentations of the secondary bilateral synchronization syndrome in adults with epilepsy].
One thousand eight hundreds and eighty patients with symptomatic and cryptogenic forms of focal epilepsy have been studied. Ninety patients (4.7%) had the secondary bilateral synchronization (SBS) syndrome in the EEG. Criteria of the syndrome are the presence of focal epileptiform activity in the EEG and SBS detected during the long-term video-EEG monitoring. In this group of patients, secondary generalized tonic-clonic, myoclonic and complex partial seizures were found. The clinical presentations of focal epilepsy were similar to the syndromes of idiopathic epilepsy in most cases. Long-term video-EEG monitoring is a method of choice in the instrumental diagnostics of these forms of epilepsy which are different in genesis and prognosis but similar in the kinematic characteristics.
Fedin
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AI
Generalov
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Amcheslavskaia
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EV
Mishniakova
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Sadykov
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003344:Cortical Synchronization / Q000379:methods*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods*; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013577:Syndrome; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult