Higher mortality seen in stroke survivors with acute symptomatic status epilepticus
Doctors could consider follow-up EEG to assess the risk of seizures post-stroke and the need for antiseizure medications, researchers say
Stroke survivors with acute symptomatic status epilepticus have higher risk of death and epilepsy than those with short acute symptomatic seizures or no seizures at all, neurologists report.
Although acute symptomatic status epilepticus after ischaemic stroke was “rare”, Swiss-led researchers say the estimated mortality rate was 79% at the 10-year mark following the index stroke.
