What EEG findings distinguish SESA syndrome (subacute encephalopathy with seizures in alcoholics) from chronic alcoholism?
Focal slowing, spiking, and LPDs (lateralized periodic discharges)
Fernández-Torre JL, Kaplan PW. Subacute Encephalopathy With Seizures in Alcoholics Syndrome: A Subtype of Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus. Epilepsy Curr. 2019 Mar-Apr;19(2):77-82. doi: 10.1177/1535759719835676. PMID: 30955427; PMCID: PMC6610417.
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