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Sharshar T, Porcher R, Asfar P, Grimaldi L, Jabot J, Argaud L, Lebert C, Bollaert PE, Harlay ML, Chillet P, Maury E, Santoli F, Blanc P, Sonneville R, Vu DC, Rohaut B, Mazeraud A, Alvarez JC, Navarro V, Clair B, Outin H, Azabou E, Beloncle F, Ben-Hadj O, Blanc P, Bollaert PE, Bolgert F, Bouadma L, Chillet P, Clair B, Corne P, Clere-Jehl R, Cour M, Crespel A, Déiler V, Dellamonica J, Demeret S, Harley ML, Henry-Lagarrigue M, Jabot J, Heming N, Hernu R, Kouatchet A, Lebert C, Lerolle N, Maury E, Letrou S, Mazeraud A, Mercat A, Mortaza S, Mourvillier B, Outin H, Paugham-Burtz C, Pierrot M, Provent M, Rohaut B, De La Salle S, Santoli F, Schenk M, Siami S, Souday V, Sharshar T, Sonneville R, Timsit JF, Thuong M, Weiss N. Valproic acid as adjuvant treatment for convulsive status epilepticus: a randomised clinical trial. Crit Care 2023; 27:8. [PMID: 36624526 PMCID: PMC9830759 DOI: 10.1186/s13054-022-04292-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2022] [Accepted: 12/21/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Generalised convulsive status epilepticus (GCSE) is a medical emergency. Guidelines recommend a stepwise strategy of benzodiazepines followed by a second-line anti-seizure medicine (ASM). However, GCSE is uncontrolled in 20-40% patients and is associated with protracted hospitalisation, disability, and mortality. The objective was to determine whether valproic acid (VPA) as complementary treatment to the stepwise strategy improves the outcomes of patients with de novo established GCSE. METHODS This was a multicentre, double-blind, randomised controlled trial in 244 adults admitted to intensive care units for GCSE in 16 French hospitals between 2013 and 2018. Patients received standard care of benzodiazepine and a second-line ASM (except VPA). Intervention patients received a 30 mg/kg VPA loading dose, then a 1 mg/kg/h 12 h infusion, whilst the placebo group received an identical intravenous administration of 0.9% saline as a bolus and continuous infusion. Primary outcome was proportion of patients discharged from hospital by day 15. The secondary outcomes were seizure control, adverse events, and cognition at day 90. RESULTS A total of 126 (52%) and 118 (48%) patients were included in the VPA and placebo groups. 224 (93%) and 227 (93%) received a first-line and a second-line ASM before VPA or placebo infusion. There was no between-group difference for patients hospital-discharged at day 15 [VPA, 77 (61%) versus placebo, 72 (61%), adjusted relative risk 1.04; 95% confidence interval (0.89-1.19); p = 0.58]. There were no between-group differences for secondary outcomes. CONCLUSIONS VPA added to the recommended strategy for adult GCSE is well tolerated but did not increase the proportion of patients hospital-discharged by day 15. TRIAL REGISTRATION NO NCT01791868 (ClinicalTrials.gov registry), registered: 15 February 2012.
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- Tarek Sharshar
- grid.508487.60000 0004 7885 7602Neuro-Intensive Care Medicine, Anaesthesiology and ICU Department, GHU-Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Pole Neuro, Sainte-Anne Hospital, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurosciences of Paris, INSERM U1266, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Université Paris Cité and Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Inserm, INRAE, Center for Research in Epidemiology and StatisticS (CRESS), F-75004 Paris, France ,grid.411394.a0000 0001 2191 1995Centre d’Epidémiologie Clinique, AP-HP, Hôpital Hôtel Dieu, F-75004 Paris, France
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- grid.411147.60000 0004 0472 0283Department of Medical Intensive Care, University Hospital, Angers, France
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- grid.50550.350000 0001 2175 4109Clinical Research Unit, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris University Paris-Saclay. Faculty of medicine, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines. Inserm U1018 Team Anti-infective evasion and pharmacoepidemiology, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
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- Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit, CHU Felix-Guyon, Saint-Denis, La Réunion, France
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- grid.412180.e0000 0001 2198 4166Service de Médecine Intensive-Réanimation, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France
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- grid.477015.00000 0004 1772 6836Médecine Intensive Réanimation, Centre Hospitalier Départemental de Vendée, La Roche-sur-Yon, France
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- grid.29172.3f0000 0001 2194 6418CHRU-Nancy, Service de Médecine Intensive Réanimation, Université de Lorraine, 54000 Nancy, France
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- grid.412201.40000 0004 0593 6932Médecine Intensive Réanimation, Hôpital de Hautepierre, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Service de Médecine Intensive - Réanimation, Centre hospitalier Léon Bourgeois, Châlons en Champagne, France
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- grid.462844.80000 0001 2308 1657Service de Médecine Intensive et Réanimation Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Paris-Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- grid.414308.a0000 0004 0594 0368Médecine Intensive—Réanimation, Centre Hospitalier Robert Ballanger, Aulnay sous Bois, France
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- grid.440383.80000 0004 1765 1969Réanimation Médico Chirurgicale, Centre Hospitalier René Dubos, Pontoise, France
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- Université de Paris Cité, INSERM UMR1137, Paris, France ,grid.411119.d0000 0000 8588 831XAPHP Nord, Médecine Intensive – Réanimation, Hôpital Bichat—Claude Bernard, Paris, France
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- General Intensive Care Unit, Sud-Essonne Hospital, Etampes, France
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- grid.462844.80000 0001 2308 1657Department of Neurology, Neuro-ICU & Brain institute - ICM, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital APHP, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- grid.508487.60000 0004 7885 7602Anaesthesiology and ICU Department, GHU-Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Pole Neuro, Sainte-Anne Hospital, Perception and Memory Unit, Neurosciences Department, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- grid.12832.3a0000 0001 2323 0229Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Inserm U-1173, Raymond Poincare Hospital, AP-HP, Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, Paris-Saclay University, 104 Boulevard Raymond Poincare, 92380 Garches, France
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- grid.425274.20000 0004 0620 5939AP-HP, Epilepsy Unit, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Sorbonne Université, and Paris Brain Institute, Paris, France
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- grid.12832.3a0000 0001 2323 0229General Intensive Care Unit, APHP, Raymond Poincaré Hospital, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, Garches, France
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- grid.418056.e0000 0004 1765 2558Intensive Care Unit Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal, Poissy/Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
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Alcohol abuse has a potential association with unfavourable clinical course and brain atrophy in patients with status epilepticus. Clin Radiol 2022; 77:e287-e294. [PMID: 35093234 DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2021.12.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2021] [Accepted: 12/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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AIM To evaluate chronological changes on serial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations and clinical prognosis in patients with status epilepticus (SE), as well as the effect of alcohol abuse and heavy alcohol use on clinicoradiological findings. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective, single-centre study was approved by the institutional review board. Among 345 patients with seizures between January 2010 and October 2021, 27 patients with SE who had undergone both initial MRI (within a week after onset) and follow-up MRI (within 1 month after the initial MRI) were included. Five and three patients with concurrent or previous alcohol abuse and heavy alcohol-use history were included, respectively, and they were classified into the AL (Alcohol use) group. The remaining 19 patients were classified into the non-AL group. Two neuroradiologists independently evaluated both initial and follow-up MRI examinations of each patient; MRI findings were compared between the AL and non-AL groups using Fisher's exact test. In 15 patients, including four patients from the AL group, clinical information 6 months after the onset of SE was available; this information was compared between the two groups. RESULTS Brain atrophy (5/8 versus 2/19, p=0.011; odds ratio, 12.29 [95% confidence interval, 1.32-189.2]) and unfavourable clinical course with uncontrollable seizures (3/4 versus 1/11, p=0.033; odds ratio, 30[1.43-638.19]) were significantly more frequent in the AL group than in the non-AL group. CONCLUSION Among patients with SE, alcohol abuse and heavy alcohol-use history were associated with unfavourable seizure control and brain atrophy.
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Gelisse P, Genton P, Crespel A, Lefevre PH. Will MRI replace the EEG for the diagnosis of nonconvulsive status epilepticus, especially focal? Rev Neurol (Paris) 2021; 177:359-369. [PMID: 33487411 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2020.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2020] [Revised: 08/21/2020] [Accepted: 09/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can now be used to diagnose or to provide confirmation of focal nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE). Approximately half of patients with status epilepticus (SE) have signal changes. MRI can also aid in the differential diagnosis with generalized NCSE when there is a clinical or EEG doubt, e.g. with metabolic/toxic encephalopathies or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. With the development of stroke centers, MRI is available 24h/24 in most hospitals. MRI has a higher spatial resolution than electroencephalography (EEG). MRI with hyperintense lesions on FLAIR and DWI provides information related to brain activity over a longer period of time than a standard EEG where only controversial patterns like lateralized periodic discharges (LPDs) may be recorded. MRI may help identify the ictal nature of LPDs. The interpretation of EEG tracings is not easy, with numerous pitfalls and artifacts. Continuous video-EEGs require a specialized neurophysiology unit. The learning curve for MRI is better than for EEG. It is now easy to transfer MRI to a platform with expertise. MRI is more accessible than single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) or positron emission tomography (PET). For the future, it is more interesting to develop a strategy with MRI than SPECT or PET for the diagnosis of NCSE. With the development of artificial intelligence, MRI has the potential to transform the diagnosis of SE. Additional MRI criteria beyond the classical clinical/EEG criteria of NCSE (rhythmic versus periodic, spatiotemporal evolution of the pattern…) should now be systematically added. However, it is more complicated to move patients to MRI than to perform an EEG in the intensive care unit, and at this time, we do not know how long the signal changes persist after the end of the SE. Studies with MRI at fixed intervals and after SE cessation are necessary.
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- P Gelisse
- Epilepsy Unit, hôpital Gui-de-Chauliac, 80, avenue Fliche, 34295 Montpellier cedex 05, France; Research Unit (URCMA: unité de recherche sur les comportements et mouvements anormaux), INSERM, U661, 34000 Montpellier, France.
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- Centre Saint-Paul-H, Gastaut, Marseille, France
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- Epilepsy Unit, hôpital Gui-de-Chauliac, 80, avenue Fliche, 34295 Montpellier cedex 05, France; Research Unit (URCMA: unité de recherche sur les comportements et mouvements anormaux), INSERM, U661, 34000 Montpellier, France
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- Neuroradiology, hôpital Gui-de-Chauliac, Montpellier, France
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Höller Y, Nardone R. Quantitative EEG biomarkers for epilepsy and their relation to chemical biomarkers. Adv Clin Chem 2020; 102:271-336. [PMID: 34044912 DOI: 10.1016/bs.acc.2020.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The electroencephalogram (EEG) is the most important method to diagnose epilepsy. In clinical settings, it is evaluated by experts who identify patterns visually. Quantitative EEG is the application of digital signal processing to clinical recordings in order to automatize diagnostic procedures, and to make patterns visible that are hidden to the human eye. The EEG is related to chemical biomarkers, as electrical activity is based on chemical signals. The most well-known chemical biomarkers are blood laboratory tests to identify seizures after they have happened. However, research on chemical biomarkers is much less extensive than research on quantitative EEG, and combined studies are rarely published, but highly warranted. Quantitative EEG is as old as the EEG itself, but still, the methods are not yet standard in clinical practice. The most evident application is an automation of manual work, but also a quantitative description and localization of interictal epileptiform events as well as seizures can reveal important hints for diagnosis and contribute to presurgical evaluation. In addition, the assessment of network characteristics and entropy measures were found to reveal important insights into epileptic brain activity. Application scenarios of quantitative EEG in epilepsy include seizure prediction, pharmaco-EEG, treatment monitoring, evaluation of cognition, and neurofeedback. The main challenges to quantitative EEG are poor reliability and poor generalizability of measures, as well as the need for individualization of procedures. A main hindrance for quantitative EEG to enter clinical routine is also that training is not yet part of standard curricula for clinical neurophysiologists.
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- Yvonne Höller
- Faculty of Psychology, University of Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland.
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- Department of Neurology, Franz Tappeiner Hospital, Merano, Italy; Spinal Cord Injury and Tissue Regeneration Center, Salzburg, Austria; Department of Neurology, Christian Doppler Klinik, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria
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