Disease or Syndrome
status epilepticus
sta·tus ep·i·lep·ti·cus
Subclass of:
Seizures
Definitions related to status epilepticus:
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A life-threatening condition characterised by a single prolonged seizure or a series of seizures without intervening full recovery of consciousness.U.S. FDA GlossaryU.S. Food & Drug Administration, 2021
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A life-threatening situation in which the brain is in a continuous state of seizure.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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A prolonged seizure or seizures repeated frequently enough to prevent recovery between episodes occurring over a period of 20-30 minutes. The most common subtype is generalized tonic-clonic status epilepticus, a potentially fatal condition associated with neuronal injury and respiratory and metabolic dysfunction. Nonconvulsive forms include petit mal status and complex partial status, which may manifest as behavioral disturbances. Simple partial status epilepticus consists of persistent motor, sensory, or autonomic seizures that do not impair cognition. Subclinical status epilepticus generally refers to seizures occurring in an unresponsive or comatose individual in the absence of overt signs of seizure activity. (From N Engl J Med 1998 Apr 2;338(14):970-6; Neurologia 1997 Dec;12 Suppl 6:25-30)NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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A prolonged seizure, or two or more discrete seizures without complete recovery of consciousness between seizures.NICHD Pediatric TerminologyU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Status epilepticus is a type of prolonged seizure resulting either from the failure of the mechanisms responsible for seizure termination or from the initiation of mechanisms which lead to abnormally prolonged seizures (after time point t1). It is a condition that can have long-term consequences (after time point t2), including neuronal death, neuronal injury, and alteration of neuronal networks, depending on the type and duration of seizures.Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
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Status epilepticus (SE) is a common, life-threatening neurologic disorder. It is essentially an acute, prolonged epileptic crisis.WebMD, 2019
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