期刊名称：Psychologie & NeuroPsychiatrie du vieillissement
印刷版ISSN：1760-1703
电子版ISSN：1950-6988
出版年度：2007
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：25-30
DOI：10.1684/pnv.2007.0099
出版社：John Libbey Eurotext
摘要：Incidence and prevalence of epilepsy increase after the age of 65 years. Epilepsy is the third most common neurological disorder in old age, and thus represents a significant health problem. Diagnosis of epilepsy may be difficult in older patients because clinical manifestations are often unusual: confusion, paresis... and because there are multiple differential diagnoses (syncope, hypoglycemia, transient ischemic attack, transient global amnesia...). A multidisciplinary group worked on epilepsy of the elderly to elaborate an electro-clinical score which aims to help establish the diagnosis of epilepsy in elderly patients in different clinical settings. This electroclinical score is based on a systematic review of the scientific literature and recommendations are explicitly linked to supporting evidence. Further clinical validation of this electroclinical score is required.
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