From theory to practice: Critical points in the 2017 ILAE classification of epileptic seizures and epilepsies

André Palmini^{1

2}, Naoki Akamatsu³, Thomas Bast^{4

5}, Sebastian Bauer⁶, Christoph Baumgartner⁷, Selim Benbadis⁸, Adriana Bermeo-Ovalle⁹, Stefan Beyenburg¹⁰, Andrew Bleasel¹¹, Alireza Bozorgi¹², Milan Brázdil¹³, Mar Carreño¹⁴, Norman Delanty¹⁵, Michael Devereaux¹⁶, John S Duncan¹⁷, Guadalupe Fernandez-Baca Vaca¹⁶, Naiara García Losarcos¹⁶, Lauren Ghanma¹⁶, Antonio Gil-Nagel¹⁸, Hajo Hamer¹⁹, Hans Holthausen²⁰, Shirin J Omidi¹⁶, Philippe Kahane²¹, Giri Kalamangalam²², Andrés Kanner²³, Susanne Knake²⁴, Stjepana Kovac²⁵, Guenter Kraemer²⁶, Gerhard Kurlemann²⁷, Nuria Lacuey¹⁶, Patrick Landazuri²⁸, Shih Hui Lim²⁹, Giorgio LoRusso³⁰, Hans Luders¹⁶, Jayanti Mani³¹, Riki Matsumoto³², Jonathan Miller³³, Soheyl Noachtar³⁴, Rebecca O'Dwyer³⁵, Jun Park⁶, Philipp S Reif⁶, Jan Rémi³², Felix Rosenow⁶, Americo Sakamoto³⁶, Susanne Schubert-Bast³⁷, Stephan Schuele³⁸, Asim Shahid³⁹, J Bernhard Steinhoff^{4

5}, Adam Strzelczyk³⁶, C Ákos Szabó⁴⁰, Nitin Tandon⁴¹, Kiyohito Terada⁴², Manuel Toledo⁴³, Walter van Emde Boas⁴⁴, Matthew Walker¹⁷, Peter Widdess-Walsh³⁰

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
² Porto Alegre Epilepsy Surgery Program, Hospital São Lucas, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
³ Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, International University of Health and Welfare, Fukuoka, Japan.
⁴ Epilepsy Center Kork, Kehl, Germany.
⁵ Medical Faculty of the University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
⁶ Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Center of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CePTER), University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
⁷ Department of Neurology, General Hospital Hietzing With Neurological Center Rosenhuegel, Karl Landsteiner Institute for Clinical Epilepsy Research and Cognitive Neurology, Medical Faculty, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria.
⁸ University of South Florida and Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, Florida.
⁹ Department of Neurological Sciences, Section of Epilepsy, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.
¹⁰ Department of Neurosciences, Neurology Department, Luxembourg Hospital Center, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
¹¹ Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney, Wentworthville, New South Wales, Australia.
¹² St Elizabeth Mercy Hospital, Youngstown, Ohio.
¹³ Brno Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, St Anne's University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
¹⁴ Epilepsy Unit, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain.
¹⁵ Department of Neurology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
¹⁶ Department of Neurology, McGovern School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas.
¹⁷ UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK.
¹⁸ Epilepsy Program, Ruber International Hospital, Madrid, Spain.
¹⁹ Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany.
²⁰ Epilepsy Center Vogtareuth, Schoen Clinic Vogtareuth, Vogtareuth, Germany.
²¹ Neurology Department, Grenoble University Hospital, Grenoble, France.
²² Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
²³ Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida.
²⁴ Epilepsy Center Hessen, Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
²⁵ Department of Neurology with Institute of Translational Neurology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
²⁶ Neurocenter Bellevue, Zurich, Switzerland.
²⁷ St Bonifatius Hospital, Lingen, Germany.
²⁸ Department of Neurology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas.
²⁹ National Neuroscience Institute, Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore.
³⁰ "Claudio Munari" Epilepsy Surgery Center, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milano, Italy.
³¹ Department of Brain and Nervous System, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai, India.
³² Division of Neurology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
³³ Functional and Restorative Neurosurgery Center, Department of Neurological Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center/Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio.
³⁴ Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, University of Munich Hospital, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
³⁵ Epilepsy Section, Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.
³⁶ Department of Neurology, University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
³⁷ Epilepsy Center, Department of Neuropediatrics and Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, University Children's Hospital, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
³⁸ Epilepsy Section, Neurological Testing Center, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
³⁹ Epilepsy Center, UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁴⁰ U T Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.
⁴¹ Department of Neurosurgery, McGovern Medical School, Texas Institute of Restorative Neurotechnologies, UT Health AND Memorial Hermann Hospital, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas.
⁴² Department of Neurology, Shizuoka Institute of Epilepsy and Neurological Disorders, Shizuoka, Japan.
⁴³ Epilepsy Unit, Vall d´Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴⁴ Formerly Director of Department of Electroencephalography and Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland, Heemstede and Zwolle, the Netherlands.

PMID: 32073153
DOI: 10.1111/epi.16426

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From theory to practice: Critical points in the 2017 ILAE classification of epileptic seizures and epilepsies

André Palmini et al. Epilepsia. 2020 Feb.

. 2020 Feb;61(2):350-353.

doi: 10.1111/epi.16426.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
² Porto Alegre Epilepsy Surgery Program, Hospital São Lucas, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
³ Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, International University of Health and Welfare, Fukuoka, Japan.
⁴ Epilepsy Center Kork, Kehl, Germany.
⁵ Medical Faculty of the University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
⁶ Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Center of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CePTER), University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
⁷ Department of Neurology, General Hospital Hietzing With Neurological Center Rosenhuegel, Karl Landsteiner Institute for Clinical Epilepsy Research and Cognitive Neurology, Medical Faculty, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria.
⁸ University of South Florida and Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, Florida.
⁹ Department of Neurological Sciences, Section of Epilepsy, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.
¹⁰ Department of Neurosciences, Neurology Department, Luxembourg Hospital Center, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
¹¹ Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney, Wentworthville, New South Wales, Australia.
¹² St Elizabeth Mercy Hospital, Youngstown, Ohio.
¹³ Brno Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, St Anne's University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
¹⁴ Epilepsy Unit, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain.
¹⁵ Department of Neurology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
¹⁶ Department of Neurology, McGovern School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas.
¹⁷ UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK.
¹⁸ Epilepsy Program, Ruber International Hospital, Madrid, Spain.
¹⁹ Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany.
²⁰ Epilepsy Center Vogtareuth, Schoen Clinic Vogtareuth, Vogtareuth, Germany.
²¹ Neurology Department, Grenoble University Hospital, Grenoble, France.
²² Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
²³ Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida.
²⁴ Epilepsy Center Hessen, Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
²⁵ Department of Neurology with Institute of Translational Neurology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
²⁶ Neurocenter Bellevue, Zurich, Switzerland.
²⁷ St Bonifatius Hospital, Lingen, Germany.
²⁸ Department of Neurology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas.
²⁹ National Neuroscience Institute, Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore.
³⁰ "Claudio Munari" Epilepsy Surgery Center, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milano, Italy.
³¹ Department of Brain and Nervous System, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai, India.
³² Division of Neurology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
³³ Functional and Restorative Neurosurgery Center, Department of Neurological Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center/Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio.
³⁴ Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, University of Munich Hospital, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
³⁵ Epilepsy Section, Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.
³⁶ Department of Neurology, University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
³⁷ Epilepsy Center, Department of Neuropediatrics and Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, University Children's Hospital, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
³⁸ Epilepsy Section, Neurological Testing Center, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
³⁹ Epilepsy Center, UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁴⁰ U T Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.
⁴¹ Department of Neurosurgery, McGovern Medical School, Texas Institute of Restorative Neurotechnologies, UT Health AND Memorial Hermann Hospital, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas.
⁴² Department of Neurology, Shizuoka Institute of Epilepsy and Neurological Disorders, Shizuoka, Japan.
⁴³ Epilepsy Unit, Vall d´Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴⁴ Formerly Director of Department of Electroencephalography and Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland, Heemstede and Zwolle, the Netherlands.

PMID: 32073153
DOI: 10.1111/epi.16426

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2017 International League Against Epilepsy classifications of seizures and epilepsy are steps in the right direction.
Fisher RS, Cross H, D'Souza C, French JA, Haut S, Higurashi N, Hirsch E, Jansen FE, Peltola J, Moshé SL, Perucca E, Lagae L, Roulet-Perez E, Schulze-Bonhage A, Scheffer IE, Somerville E, Sperling MR, Wiebe S, Yacubian EM, Zuberi S. Fisher RS, et al. Epilepsia. 2019 Jun;60(6):1040-1044. doi: 10.1111/epi.15052. Epub 2019 May 10. Epilepsia. 2019. PMID: 31074833 Review. No abstract available.

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