2021
Electroencephalographic Abnormalities are Common in COVID‐19 and are Associated with Outcomes
Lin L, Al‐Faraj A, Ayub N, Bravo P, Das S, Ferlini L, Karakis I, Lee JW, Mukerji SS, Newey CR, Pathmanathan J, Abdennadher M, Casassa C, Gaspard N, Goldenholz DM, Gilmore EJ, Jing J, Kim JA, Kimchi EY, Ladha HS, Tobochnik S, Zafar S, Hirsch LJ, Westover MB, Shafi MM. Electroencephalographic Abnormalities are Common in COVID‐19 and are Associated with Outcomes. Annals Of Neurology 2021, 89: 872-883. PMID: 33704826, PMCID: PMC8104061, DOI: 10.1002/ana.26060.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNonconvulsive status epilepticusElectrographic seizuresClinical outcomesEpileptiform abnormalitiesRisk factorsPresence of NCSEMultivariate Cox proportional hazards analysisMulticenter retrospective cohort studyCox proportional hazards analysisCOVID-19Retrospective cohort studyClinical risk factorsContinuous electroencephalogram monitoringAdverse clinical outcomesProportional hazards analysisCoronavirus disease 2019Ann NeurolHospital mortalityHospital lengthClinical seizuresCohort studyIndependent predictorsStatus epilepticusEEG findingsElectroencephalographic abnormalities
2020
Association of race and ethnicity to incident epilepsy, or epileptogenesis, after subdural hematoma.
Brown SC, King ZA, Kuohn L, Kamel H, Gilmore EJ, Frontera JA, Murthy S, Kim JA, Omay SB, Falcone GJ, Sheth KN. Association of race and ethnicity to incident epilepsy, or epileptogenesis, after subdural hematoma. Neurology 2020, 95: e2890-e2899. PMID: 32907969, PMCID: PMC7734738, DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000010742.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSubdural hematomaEmergency departmentMultivariable Cox regressionRetrospective cohort studyMedical risk factorsDevelopment of epilepsyNontraumatic subdural hematomaAssociation of raceDiagnosis of epilepsyCohort studyPrimary outcomeRenal diseaseStatus epilepticusWhite patientsBlack patientsHospital revisitsCox regressionBlack raceDiagnosis codesRisk factorsClaims dataInjury severityEpilepsyDrug useSurvival analysis