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ICD-9-CM

• 345.3 Grand mal status (includes status epilepticus, not otherwise specified)

See Also

• Approach to Seizures
• Confusion, Delirium, and Coma
  
• Focal Epilepsy, Including Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
• Generalized Epilepsy

Internet Sites

• Professionals
  • Clinical trials related to Status Epilepticus
    ClinicalTrials.gov
  • Management of Status Epilepticus
    American Academy of Family Physicians
• Patients
  • Homepage
    Epilepsy.com

General Bibliography

• Berg AT et al: Status epilepticus after the initial diagnosis of epilepsy in children. Neurology 63:1027, 2004  [PMID:15452294]
• Bleck TP: Refractory status epilepticus. Curr Opin Crit Care 11:117, 2005  [PMID:15758590]
• Chang BS, Lowenstein DH: Epilepsy. N Engl J Med 349:1257, 2003  [PMID:14507951]
• Lowenstein DH: Treatment options for status epilepticus. Curr Opin Pharmacol 5:334, 2005  [PMID:15907922]
• Wyllie E (ed): The Treatment of Epilepsy: Principles and Practice, 3d ed. Baltimore, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001
• This topic is based on Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, 16th edition, chapter 348, Seizures and Epilepsy by DH Lowenstein.
  

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