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. 2006 Jun 13;66(11):1736-8.
doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000223352.71621.97.

A clinical score for prognosis of status epilepticus in adults

Andrea O Rossetti  1 , Giancarlo Logroscino, Edward B Bromfield
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A clinical score for prognosis of status epilepticus in adults

Andrea O Rossetti et al. Neurology. .

Abstract

The authors derived a clinical score to predict mortality in status epilepticus (SE) from analysis of a retrospective SE cohort, using four variables available at presentation: history of seizures, age, seizure type, and consciousness impairment. Validation on a small prospective SE series (34 patients) resulted in sensitivity, 1.000; specificity, 0.643; negative predictive value, 1.000; and unweighted accuracy, 0.822. This simple clinical score may reliably identify patients surviving after SE.

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