Long-term epilepsy after early post-stroke status epilepticus

Cerebrovascular disease is involved in 11% of epilepsy cases, and the rate increases with age, reaching up to 45% of incident cases in the older population (>65 years) [1,2]. In addition, stroke is one of the most frequent aetiologies of status epilepticus (SE), although this condition occurs in only 1.5% of strokes [3,4].

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