ABSTRACT
The authors report their experience of ambulatory EEG monitoring (Medilog 9000, Oxford Instruments) in a paediatric population. They describe the method of recording, the system of lecture and the paper reproduction possibilities. Thirty-four 24 h cassettes have been recorded and analysed in 30 children aged from 1 month to 17 years. Six infants (under 1 year) had convulsions or spasms; 20 children were epileptic and 5 children were recorded for different reasons. Sleep was obtained in all cases. Seizures were recorded in 5 of 6 infants under 1 year of age, and in 11 of 20 epileptic children. The advantages and applications of this method are discussed.
Subject(s)
Brain Diseases/diagnosis , Electroencephalography/methods , Epilepsy/diagnosis , Monitoring, Physiologic/methods , Adolescent , Child , Child, Preschool , Encephalitis/diagnosis , Female , Humans , Infant , Male , Measles/diagnosis , Seizures/diagnosis , Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders/diagnosis , Spasms, Infantile/diagnosisABSTRACT
Of 61 newborns with disorders in amino acid metabolism, 20 had seizures; 15 of them have been recorded. Clinically, seizures are mostly partial clonic jerks. There seems to be some homogeneity of EEG features in relation to causal amino acidopathy. In every case where seizures, either electroclinical or only infraclinical, occurred the evolution was very poor, even in those diseases that would have had a good prognosis. Therefore the EEG in the newborns is especially interesting, both as an aid to diagnosis by interictal recording and as a prognostic tool by registration of seizures.
