Clinical study of continuous video EEG monitoring in patients with acute cerebral infarction / 中国综合临床

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the effect of continuous video EEG monitoring on acute cerebral infarction comorbid epileptiform discharges and clinical seizures,and the relationship between cerebral infarction site and seizures.Methods Of the 337 patients continuously video EEG monitored in NICU at our department,259 were included for this study according to our inclusion and exclusion criteria.We recorded patients' epileptiform discharges,type and time of clinical onset,detailed CT and (or) MRI display,cerebral infarction site,and demographic data including admission age,gender,disease history and NIHSS score.Results There were 227/259 (88％) cases showed abnormal discharge in EEG,including 94 with side hemispheric slow wave,99 with local changes,34 with slow wave combined with epileptiform discharges.Early seizures was found in 12 cases,including 3 cases with seizure-induced cerebral infarction,9 cases with attack within one week after cerebral infarction.Ten in the 12 patients had tonic-clonic seizures,and the other 2 cases hadlocal seizures.Epileptiform discharges in EEG was found in 9 cases of the 12 patients.Clinical seizures were not observed in 25 patients with epileptiform discharges in EEG.Results on the relationship between cerebral infarction site and epileptiform discharges showed that incidence of epilepsy in patients with watershed infarction was significantly higher than other types of cerebral infarction (29.0％ vs 13.4％ and 9.0％,P =0.03,0.01 ).Conclusion Continuous video EEG monitoring is capable of detecting early epilepsy and epileptiform discharges.It can provide theoretical basis for the prevention and treatment of epilepsy.