periictal
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- (medicine) Of or pertaining to the time around a seizure episode.
- 2000, Thomas R. Henry, John S. Duncan, Samuel F. Berkovic, Functional Imaging in the Epilepsies:
- It does not require any of the elaborate video-EEG monitor unit facilities required for periictal studies, but the concurrent performance of an EEG recording during the injection to ensure that it is truly interictal is desirable.
- 2013, Central Nervous System Diseases—Advances in Research and Treatment: 2013 Edition, Scholarly Editions, →ISBN, page 8:
- The relationship between PGES and periictal autonomic changes was evaluated, as well as its association with several clinical variables.
- 2015, Elaine Wyllie, Wyllie's Treatment of Epilepsy: Principles and Practice, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 153:
- Periictal bradycardia (heart rate less than the 2nd percentile for age) has been documented in 2% to 4% of monitored seizures.
- 2015, Erik K. St Louis, David M. Ficker, Terence J. O'Brien, Epilepsy and the Interictal State: Co-morbidities and Quality of Life, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 31:
- The continued inclusion of consciousness in the definition of seizures and epilepsy is related to the concerning clinical morbidity associated with global encephalopathy and altered perception during the ictal and periictal states.