Status Epilepticus Induced by Antiepileptic Drugs

Abstract

Adolescent and adult patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) who developed paradoxical video-EEG documented status epilepticus (SE) precipitated by inappropriate antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) were studied retrospectively at Hopital Pasteur, Nice; Hopital Rangueil, Toulouse; and Hopital Henri-Gastaut, Marseilles, France.

Keywords

• antiepileptic drugs
• status epilepticus
• carbamazepine