1043-3155 Pediatr Neurol Briefs pedneurbriefs Pediatr Neurol Briefs Pediatric Neurology Briefs Pediatr Neurol Briefs 2166-6482 1043-3155 2166-3155 Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers Chicago, IL, USA PNB-4-64-b 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-4-8-11 Neonatal Neurology Neurology Pediatrics Nervous System Diseases Child Development Brain Diseases Neurosurgery Child Infant Prognosis of Neonatal Seizures http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0173-7931 Millichap J. Gordon MD 1 2 * Division of Neurology, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL Correspondence: Dr. J. Gordon Millichap, E-mail: jgmillichap@northwestern.edu 08 1990 01 08 2016 4 8 64 64 Copyright: © 1990 The Author(s) 1990 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Sequential use of standard and ambulatory EEG in neonatal seizures

The value of standard and ambulatory electroencephalography in the prediction of continuing neonatal seizures was investigated in the Department of Neurology, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY.

 Ambulatory Electroencephalography Initial Seizures Neonatal Seizures

The value of standard and ambulatory electroencephalography in the prediction of continuing neonatal seizures was investigated in the Department of Neurology, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY. Thirteen neonates with seizures occurring after 7 days of age were evaluated with standard short-term electroencephalography (SEEG) during the initial seizures and with ambulatory EEG (AEEG) when each infant was within 37-44 weeks corrected age (i.e., gestational age plus chronologic age). The etiology of the seizures was hypoxia in 7, infectious in 3, and idiopathic in the remainder. The occurrence of seizures at 3-4 months corrected age was accurately predicted by SEEGs in 8 of 13 cases, by AEEGs in 10 to 13, and with the combined use of SEEG and AEEG in 12 of 13. The combined analysis of SEEG and AEEG provided the best prediction of continued seizure activity in infants with neonatal seizures. [1]

COMMENT The identification of high risk infants who require antiepileptic drugs beyond the neonatal period should be facilitated by using this technique. Neonatal seizures become recurrent in approximately 25% of cases.

 Kerr SL Shucard DW Kohrman MH Cohen ME Sequential use of standard and ambulatory EEG in neonatal seizures Pediatr Neurol 1990 May-Jun 6 3 159 62 10.1016/0887-8994(90)90056-7 2360956