Prevalence of early seizure, late seizure, and epilepsy in each cerebrovascular disease.
Abstract
Various types of cerebrovascular diseases can result in epilepsy in any age, especially in the elderly. Besides well-known cause of epilepsy as large cerebral infarction involving cerebral cortex and intracerebral hemorrhage, there are growing evidences of roles of subcortical infarction, chronic subdural hematoma, and superficial siderosis of the central nervous system in the pathogenesis of epilepsy. We review here the epidemiology and possible predictors of epilepsy in each type of cerebrovascular lesions and summarize the characteristics of semiology and electroencephalography findings in order to take early treatment strategy. Additionally, relevance of acute-symptomatic seizures and status epilepticus to epilepsy is discussed.
Keywords
- epilepsy
- cerebrovascular diseases
- cerebral infarction
- intracranial hemorrhage
- stroke
- provoked seizures
- acute symptomatic seizures
- early seizures
- late seizures
1. Introduction
Various kinds of brain insults are associated with an increased risk for development of seizures and epilepsy. In adults, a probable etiology of approximately 50% of new-onset seizures can be determined. Cerebrovascular diseases are the most common risk factors of epilepsy (21%), followed by tumors (11%) and traumatic brain injury (7%) [1]. In children and adolescents of 0–19 years of age, the leading epilepsy etiologies are static encephalopathies (38.2%), stroke (12.1%), traumatic brain injury (11.4%), and infection (8.6%) [2].
The traditional definition of stroke is based on clinical characteristics of the sudden onset of loss of focal neurological dysfunction due to infarction or hemorrhage in the relevant part of the brain, retina, or spinal cord, lasting longer than 24 hours [3]. Stroke is classified into cerebral infarction, intracerebral hemorrhage, and subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH).
Post-stroke seizures have been classified as either early seizures or late seizures, depending on the interval from stroke onset to seizure onset. In the field of stroke, the latent period of two weeks has been most commonly used to distinguish between early seizures and late seizures [4]. Approximately 5–10% of patients with stroke present early seizures within the first two weeks and about half of them occur during the first day after the stroke [5, 6]. In the field of epilepsy, the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) proposes a recommendation to define acute symptomatic seizures as seizures occurring within one week subsequent to acute damage to the brain, caused by such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, anoxic encephalopathy, and intracranial surgery [7]. Seizures occurring at least two weeks after stroke are called late or remote symptomatic seizures [4, 8]. Epilepsy is a brain disorder with an enduring preposition to generate epileptic seizures, usually applicable to patients having two or more unprovoked seizures occurring at least 24 hours apart. In addition, ILAE updated the practical definition of epilepsy in 2014 to apply also to a condition of one unprovoked (or reflex) seizure and a probability of further seizures similar to the general recurrence risk (at least 60%) after two unprovoked seizures, occurring over the next 10 years [9]. Therefore, occurrence of an unprovoked late seizure is necessary and sufficient for the diagnosis of post-stroke epilepsy (PSE) because of a high risk of recurrence; such patients are recommended to be treated with antiepileptic medication under the diagnosis of epilepsy [9].
Depending on the type of underlying cerebrovascular disease, 3–30% of patients who experience stroke may develop PSE [10]. The risk to develop epilepsy after stroke is the highest during the first two years, but still elevated even 10 years after stroke [11].
Status epilepticus is a medical emergency that has high mortality rate (approximately 20%) [12]. Classically status epilepticus was defined as a condition characterized by an epileptic seizure sufficiently prolonged or repeated at sufficiently brief intervals so as to produce an unvarying and enduring epileptic condition. In 2015, ILAE proposed the new definition of status epilepticus as follows. Status epilepticus is a condition resulting either from the failure of the mechanisms responsible for seizure termination or from the initiation of mechanisms, which lead to abnormally, prolonged seizures (after time point t1). It is a condition, which can have long-term consequences (after time point t2), including neuronal death, neuronal injury, and alteration of neuronal networks, depending on the type and duration of seizures. Because of incomplete evidence, each time point should be considered as the best estimates currently available. In the case of convulsive status epilepticus, t1 at 5 minute and t2 at 30 minutes are suggested based on animal experiments and clinical research [13]. Patients with status epilepticus rarely recover spontaneously; therefore they should be treated with antiepileptic drugs as soon as possible.
Status epilepticus occurs in 1.5–2.8% of stroke patients [14, 15]. In the older adults (≧65 years of age), 52.3% of status epilepticus are caused by stroke [16]. In the older adults (≧60 years of age), semiology of status epilepticus is less frequently generalized tonic–clonic seizures compared to younger adults (33% vs. 63%, p = 0.001); on the other side, non-convulsive status epilepticus with coma are exclusively seen in older patients (10.3% vs. 0%, p = 0.02) [17]. In this chapter, we reviewed the epidemiology and possible predictors of epilepsy in each type of cerebrovascular diseases. The characteristics of semiology and electroencephalography (EEG) findings which enable us to take early treatment strategy are summarized. Relevance of acute-symptomatic seizures and status epilepticus to epilepsy is also discussed.
2. What kinds of vascular lesions can cause epilepsy?
2.1 General risk factors of poststroke seizures and epilepsy
Cerebrovascular disease is the most common etiology of acute symptomatic seizures and secondary epilepsy in adults, accounting for approximately 11% of epilepsy diagnosis [18].
All types of cerebrovascular diseases can cause early or late seizures. Among them, the common causes of epilepsy are cerebral infarction, intracerebral hemorrhage, and SAH (Table 1). As a genetic risk factor of PSE, the relationship between PSE and the ALDH2 (aldehyde dehydrogenase 2) rs671 polymorphism is known [48].
Early seizure | Late seizure | Epilepsy | |
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Cerebral infarction | 4.8% [6] | 3.8% [6] | 2.0–4.0% [5, 19, 20, 21] |
Intracerebral hemorrhage | 31% [22] | 4.0–11.8% [23, 24] | 8.1–13.5% [4, 25] |
Subarachnoid hemorrhage | Up to 20% [26] | 2.0–5.5% [27] | 3.1–25% [28, 29, 30], |
Acute subdural hematomaa | 24–36% [31, 32, 33] | 42–44% [31, 32, 33] | 58.3% [34] |
Chronic subdural hematoma | 3.6–42% [33] | 1.6–30.7% [33, 35, 36] | 4.3–6.9% [37, 38] |
Acute epidural hematomaa | 41% [39] | 0% [39] | 71.4% [34] |
Cerebral venous thrombosis | 34.0–46.7% [40, 41, 42] | 11% [43] | 5.2% [42] |
Arteriovenous malformation | 26.2%b [44] | 26–35% [44] | 67–72% [44] |
Arteriovenous fistula | NA | NA | 2.7%c [45] |
Cavernous angioma | NA | NA | 32.1%d [46] |
Moyamoya disease | NA | NA | 7.7% [47] |
The risk factors for early seizures after stroke include intracerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction with hemorrhagic transformation, stroke severity, and alcoholism [49].
The risk factors for PSE include cortical involvement (visual neglect, dysphagia, field defect, and so on), stroke severity indies at presentation, including low Glasgow Coma Scale, incontinence, or poor Barthel Index, hemorrhagic lesions, young age (< 65 years), and stroke subtype, particularly total anterior circulation infarcts [11]. Abraira et al. pointed that NIHSS score more than 4 at the stroke presentation and post-stroke status epilepticus duration more than 16 hours might predict of PSE in patients with early-onset post-stroke status epilepticus [50].
2.2 Cerebral infarction
Cerebral infarction can occur at any age, with the greatest risk being during the first week after birth. In adults, about 70–85% of cerebrovascular diseases are ischemic. Etiological subtypes of cerebral infarction are classified according to the TOAST classification (Table 2) [51], the ASCOD phenotyping system [52], and the Causative Classification System [53]. Most cases of PSE are due to arterial ischemic stroke [54], accounting for up to 9% of incident cases of epilepsy [55].
In ASCOD, every patient should be graded using 5 categories: A (atherosclerosis); S (small-vessel disease); C (cardiac pathology); O (other cause), and D (dissection) [52]. With the Causative Classification System classification of ischemic stroke etiology, ischemic stroke is classified as the following; large artery atherosclerosis, cardio-aortic embolism, small artery occlusion, other causes, and undetermined causes [53].
Early seizure occurrence is associated with hemorrhagic transformation and stroke severity. Late seizure is associated with cortical involvement and stroke severity [56]. The SeLECT score is proposed to predict the risk of late seizures after ischemic stroke, using only five well-defined parameters (Severity of stroke, Large-artery atherosclerotic etiology, Early seizures, Cortical involvement, and Territory of middle cerebral artery involvement) [57]. The overall risk of late seizures was 4% at 1 year and 8% at 5 years after stroke. Based on the estimation, patients with the SeLECT value of 7 points or more have more than 60% risk of seizures within 5 years after stroke, which is higher than the practical definition of epilepsy by ILAE (at least 60% over the next 10 years) [9], even though the patients have no unprovoked seizures. The risk factors for epilepsy after ischemic stroke include early seizures, stroke severity, stroke subtype, stroke location (anterior circulation infarct and cortical involvement), stroke recurrence, artery dissection and established coronary disease [56, 58]. Patients receiving thrombolytic or intra-arterial reperfusion therapies for acute ischemic stroke are at higher risk of epilepsy [59]. Post-stroke seizures can be sometimes associated with small vessel disease. The risk of developing seizures is more strongly related to the localization of lacunar infarctions in the hemispheric white matter (leukoaraiosis) than in the basal ganglia or in the brain stem [60]. Branch atheromatous disease could also have an association with late seizures [61].
2.3 Intracerebral hemorrhage
Early seizures were seen in 31% of patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage who were evaluated with continuous electroencephalographic monitoring and over half had purely electrographic seizures only [22]. The incidence of PSE after intracerebral hemorrhage is between 8.1 and 13.5% [4, 25]. Seizures secondary to intracerebral hemorrhage are relatively common like this and likely underdiagnosed event that may have little impact on in-hospital mortality and morbidity [62]. Nonconvulsive electrographic seizures may be associated with hematoma expansion [22].
The risk factors for seizures following intracerebral hemorrhage are associated with hemorrhage volume, hemorrhage location within the cerebrum, cortical involvement and the severity of neurological deficits [10]. Surgery for an intracerebral hemorrhage is an additional risk for the development of late seizures [63].
For patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage, clinical early seizures should be treated with antiepileptic drugs [64]. When the patients have a change in mental status, the evaluation with EEG is recommended. If the patients have electrographic seizures on EEG, they should be treated with antiepileptic drugs [64]. Current clinical guidelines do not recommend the routine use of prophylactic antiepileptic drugs for spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage [64] because there is no evidence to improve neurological function [65].
Periodic discharges on EEG could be associated with cortical intracerebral hemorrhage and poor outcome [22].
2.4 Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Early seizures may be seen in up to 20% of patients after aneurysmal SAH, and more commonly in association with intracerebral hemorrhage, hypertension, and middle cerebral and anterior communicating artery aneurysms [26]. Early seizures after SAH occur most commonly in the first 24 hours [26]. The actuarial risk of epilepsy after SAH was 18% by the first year, 23% by the second year, and 25% by the fifth year in the survivors of SAH [28]. Aneurysm location most associated with the development of SAH-related epilepsy is middle cerebral artery at the M1 branch and artery bifurcation [66]. The risk factors for epilepsy after aneurysmal SAH include the rupture of aneurysms in the anterior circulation, a young age, intracerebral hemorrhage, a poor neurological outcome, and hemosiderosis [29, 66]. Severe Hunt and Hess score as well as intraventricular hemorrhage elevate the risk of having a seizure after SAH [67]. The degree of neurological impairment and presence of an early seizure soon after the time of SAH have been identified as a risk factor for post-SAH epilepsy [68].
Nonconvulsive seizures following SAH cause transient brain hypoxia, increased intracranial pressure, and increased blood pressure [69]. Although evidence is not sufficient yet, guidelines recommend to consider the prophylactic use of antiepileptic medication except phenytoin (PHT) in the immediate post-hemorrhagic period and to consider the routine use of antiepileptic medication for patients with known risk factors for late seizures such as prior seizure, intracerebral hematoma, intractable hypertension, infarction, or aneurysm at the middle cerebral artery, though long-term use is not recommended [26]. Importantly, PHT should be avoided for the prophylaxis of early seizure following aneurysmal SAH because of known association with vasospasm, worsening of cognitive outcomes, and infarctions [70]. Recently, levetiracetam (LEV) is increasingly used for the prophylaxis of early seizures [26, 70].
2.5 Cerebral venous thrombosis
In patients with cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT), early seizures were seen in 6.9–76% [71], status epilepticus in 6% [40], late seizures in 11% [43], and post-CVT epilepsy in 4–16% [71]. Risk factors for early seizures following cerebral sinus thrombosis include brain parenchymal lesions, focal neurological deficits, supratentorial parenchymal lesions, intracerebral hemorrhage, focal edema/ischemic infarction, superior sagittal sinus thrombosis, cortical venous thrombosis, and pregnancy/puerperium [72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77]. Known risk factors for late seizures after CVT are early seizures, baseline intracerebral hemorrhage, decompressive hemicraniectomy, sigmoid sinus thrombosis, loss of consciousness at presentation, and genetic thrombophilia [43, 75, 78].
In the absence of previous early seizure following cerebral venous thrombosis, there is no evidence to prescribe prophylactic antiepileptic drugs during acute phase [40]. European and American guidelines recommend antiepileptic drug treatment on CVT for patients with early seizures and supratentorial lesions in order to prevent further seizures [79, 80].
Due to the high recurrence risk of late seizures, epilepsy diagnosis and commencement of antiepileptic drugs following a first late seizure after CVT is reasonable [43].
3. How vascular lesions acquire epileptogenicity?
3.1 Epileptogenicity
Epileptogenicity is the development and extension of tissue capable of generating spontaneous seizures, resulting in the development of an epileptic disorder or progression after the disorder is established [81]. In general, there are three phases to acquire epileptogenicity. First, brain-damaging insult (stroke, traumatic brain injury and central nervous system infections etc.) occurs (acute phase). Second, brain acquires epileptogenicity during a certain period of time (latent period), and third, as a result spontaneous recurrent seizures occur (chronic phase). In order to elucidate the mechanism of acquiring epileptogenicity, it is very important to study what occurs in the brain during latent period.
Risk factors, especially relevant to clinical practice, for acquiring epileptogenicity and subsequent development of PSE are summarized in Table 3.
Symptom severity | Clinical stroke severity is a major factor in the development of PSE |
Lesion size | Post-stroke seizures were more likely to develop in patients with larger lesions involving multiple lobes of the brain than in those with single lobar involvement Total anterior circulation infarct is a particularly strong risk factor for PSE compared with other ischemic stroke subtypes |
Lesion location | Extent of cortical involvement is a significant risk factor for PSE Involvement of the parieto-temporal cortex, supramarginal gyrus, and superior temporal gyrus associates with post-stroke epileptogenesis |
Stroke subtype | PSE occurred more frequently with hemorrhagic stroke than with ischemic stroke, with about 10–20% of patients developing PSE after hemorrhagic stroke compared with 2–14% after ischemic stroke |
Cortical blood flow | A PET study revealed reduced cortical blood flow and oxygen consumption are related to late-onset epilepsy in patients with leukoaraiosis |
Vascular risk factors | Vascular risk factors including history of myocardial infarction, peripheral vascular disease, hypertension, total serum cholesterol, and left ventricular hypertrophy, are associated with PSE |
Other factors | Genetic factors, peri-injury exposome, etc. |
PSE: post-stroke epilepsy, PET: positron emission tomography.
Animal experiment of stroke model is very helpful to elucidate epileptogenicity. Several studies directly evaluate neuronal and glial activities after stroke by using electrophysiological and histological measures. Early seizures evoked by traumatic brain injury and stroke can be suppressed by short-term prophylactic administration of antiepileptic drugs but it doesn’t alter the incidence of PSE [83]. Therefore, targeting only neurons may be insufficient to prevent epileptogenicity; the glial involvement in the process of epileptogenesis after experimental stroke should be reviewed. Changes in neuro-glial syncytium during the course of acquiring epileptogenesis are shown inFigure 1.
Astrocytes form extensive gap junctions composed of connexin (Cx) 43 with other astrocytes and play a central role of neuron–glia syncytium [84]. Astrocyte regulates neural activities by removing excessive extracellular potassium at synapses and transports them into regions of low potassium concentration via gap junction [85]. Cx 43 also forms hemichannels in the astrocyte. Hemichannels allow the exchange of ions and molecules between the cytoplasm and the extracellular medium, which physiologically regulate neuronal activity as well as synaptic strength and plasticity [86] and also pathologically be activated by inflammation [87].
3.2 Acute phase
Epileptiform activities after middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion were first recorded using surface conventional EEG in the rat experiment by Hartings et al. [88]. 55–90% of animals had epileptiform activities 33–50 minutes after stroke which exacerbated brain injury [89, 90, 91]. High frequency oscillations (HFOs) are involved with epileptogenic region in intractable epileptic patients (e.g. focal cortical dysplasia) and rat pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy [92]. In rat stroke model, HFOs were also observed 5–15 seconds before run of theta activities consisted of sharp positive spikes followed by longer negative waves and terminated at the onset of the discharge after ischemia [93]. Direct current (DC) shifts are associated with a steady increase of the extracellular potassium concentration, which matches to the intracellular voltage variations of glial cells [94]. In rat MCA occlusion model, a highly significant linear correlation is reported between the number of depolarization and the infarct size at peri-infarct region, and DC shifts are also recorded [95], which may indicate exceeding of potassium concentration to the buffering capacity of astrocyte.
Histological changes immediately after stroke are reported by Ramírez-Sánchez et al. [96]. When rats were subjected to 90 minutes MCA occlusion followed by 23 hours of reperfusion, neuronal cells in the peri-infart cortex, cornu ammonis (CA) 1, and dentate gyrus (DG) areas were decreased, and widespread reactive astrogliosis in both of the cortex and the hippocampus (CA1, CA3, and DG areas) was observed 24 hours after ischemia.
Therefore, in acute phase of epileptogenesis, stroke immediately damages neurons and glia cells, and provokes neuronal epileptic activity. Furthermore, as a result of destruction of cells and excessive neural firing, the extracellular potassium concentration increases beyond glial potassium buffering capacity, which may lead to a vicious circle of further neural firing.
3.3 Latent period and chronic phase
Chronic phase of the aged rat post-stroke brain is reported by Titova et al. [97]. They evaluated ischemic lesions at 28 days induced by 5o minutes right MCA occlusion in aged rat (18 month-old). In ischemic lesion, extensive glial scar and apoptotic neurons were found and phagocytic macrophages/microglia cells were seen in the peri-lesional rim. The brain irradiation possibly affects normal post-stroke microglia signaling and prevents following activation of inflammatory cascade mechanisms [98]. When proton irradiation was performed at the heads of aged rat ten days prior to right MCA occlusion, chronic phagocytosis and T-lymphocyte infiltration in the brain were reduced, and formation of glio-vascular complexes, neuronal viability, neovascularization were improved in the peri-lesional zone, and neurological severity scoring were improved [97]. These data clearly demonstrated that, in addition to direct damage to brain by stroke itself, subsequent inflammation also damages neuron, astrocyte, vessel and neural function.
In the central nervous system, microglia is a major player in the brain inflammation. Stroke activates microglia which is called M1 phenotype, which secretes inflammatory cytokine like interleukin (IL) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α [99]. Astrocyte also secretes inflammatory cytokines (e.g. TNF-α, IL-1β) via Cx43-hemichannel in the MCA occlusion model [100], whereas Gap19, a selective Cx43-hemichannel inhibitor, exhibits neuroprotective effects on cerebral ischemia/reperfusion via suppression of the expression of Cx43 and toll-like receptor 4 pathway-relevant proteins, and prevention of the overexpression of TNF-α and IL-1β in astrocyte. An obvious improvement in neurological scores and infarct volume reduction were observed in Gap19-treated mice after brain ischemia induced by MCA occlusion [100].
Inflammatory cytokines, specifically IL-1β and TNF-α, are involved in inhibition of gap junctional communication and increase of hemichannel activity in astrocytes [87]. Inhibition of gap junction communication impedes potassium buffering which promotes neural firing. Increased hemichannel activity allows the release of molecules such as adenosine triphosphate, glutamate, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, glutathione, and prostaglangin E2 [101, 102, 103, 104, 105]. These molecules are toxic to adjacent cells and finally lead to neuronal and glial death [106, 107]. These insults to the central nervous system tissue trigger a range of molecular, morphological, and functional changes of astrocytes called reactive gliosis [108], which is one of the most important pathogenic steps of spontaneous seizure [92].
As for electrophysiological study of PSE model, few data are available because only 10–20% of post-stroke rats develop spontaneous seizure [109]. Brain damage induced by brain injury, axotomy, or toxic substance in addition to stroke also activates microglia [99], therefore, electrophysiological pathology induced by inflammation of other causes is probably plausible as that is induced by stroke. The mechanism of epileptogenesis after status epilepticus model is well studied. Pilocarpine, a muscarinic acetylcholine agonist, induces status epilepticus, and after a certain latent period surviving rats acquire epileptogenesis [110]. This rat model also shows HFOs and DC shifts during seizure at acute phase [92]. Gliosis occurs in 8–12 weeks after pilocarpine injection [111], and spatial potassium buffering function at hippocampus is impaired [112]. EEG recording during epileptic seizures at chronic phase of this model rat showed DC shifts preceding HFOs and conventional ictal EEG patterns, which may be the result of dysfunction of astrocyte extracellular potassium buffering [92]. Minocycline is a second-generation tetracycline and has potent anti-inflammatory effects independent of its antimicrobial action. Minocycline attenuates spontaneous recurrent seizures following pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus, and inhibits the status epilepticus-induced microglial activation and overproduction of IL-1β and TNF-α in the hippocampal CA1 and the adjacent cortex, without affecting astrocyte activation. In addition, minocycline prevents the status epilepticus-induced neuronal loss [113].
4. Neurological examination, electroencephalography, and imaging findings
4.1 Neurological examination
Post-stroke epilepsy is common among the elderly. Nonconvulsive seizures are common in elderly patient with epilepsy, and clinical presentation of elderly patients with epilepsy differs considerably from younger patients; less common and nonspecific auras (e.g. dizziness); less frequent automatisms; prolonged post-ictal confusion; common complaints with altered mental status, confusion, and memory disturbance [114].
These characteristics hinder and delay the diagnosis of epilepsy in the elderly. Co-morbid diseases such as hypertension, dementia, transient ischemic attack (TIA), and cardiac diseases can mislead to attribute these symptoms as one of the manifestations of pre-existing conditions in an elderly patient with new-onset epilepsy [114]. It is necessary and important, for example, to evaluate stroke or TIA immediately for patient with new-onset motor aphasia with brain imaging examinations; however, the symptom can be of aphasic seizures per se or in association with various neurological emergencies, especially if the duration of aphasia is brief, severity of aphasia is fluctuating, or other concomitant neurological findings exist. Clinical presentation of elderly patients with new-onset epilepsy is commonly nonspecific, and thus, EEG should be utilized for the diagnosis of epilepsy in the elderly.
Status epilepticus occurs in 9–19% of patients with post-stroke seizures, while status epilepticus following stroke accounted for 14–27% of all status epilepticus in adults [115]. Tomari et al. reported that 24% of post-stroke seizures with status epilepticus are nonconvulsive status epilepticus [115]. The initiation of treatments for nonconvulsive status epilepticus is commonly delayed compared with convulsive status epilepticus because the diagnosis is often difficult without EEG. The evaluation with EEG is mandatory for patients with nonspecific symptoms such as depressed level of consciousness. Subtle neurological manifestations (e.g. myoclonus, rigidity/spasticity, saccadic eye movement, eye/head turning, abnormal reflexes), their fluctuation, and repetitions of their combination (e.g. myoclonus - > rigidity/spasticity - > paresis - > hyperreflexia, tachypnea - > eyelid twitch - > eye open - > pupil dilation - > eye/head turning) are worthwhile to further evaluation for status epilepticus.
4.2 Electroencephalography
Epileptiform discharges (spikes and sharp waves) in conventional EEG are highly specific to seizure recurrence but not sensitive enough in adult patients (sensitivity 17.3%, specificity 94.7%) [116]. Therefore, lack of epileptiform discharges does not simply exclude the possibility of epileptic seizures. Other nonspecific findings represent both neuronal damage and epileptic activities; amplitude decrease of background activities (e.g. posterior dominant rhythm, fast waves, sleep spindles) and presence of focal slow activities should be serially evaluated.
Recently, long-term, continuous EEG monitoring with video record is increasingly utilized in intensive care unit for early diagnosis of nonconvulsive status epilepticus. Besides conventional EEG seizure patterns (i.e. rhythmic activities with evolution in frequency and amplitude), lateralized periodic discharges, evolving/fluctuating activities, and abnormal rhythmic fast activities superimposed to rhythmic/periodic activities should be evaluated [117, 118, 119]. The Salzburg EEG criteria for diagnosis of nonconvulsive status epilepticus include improvement of EEG after intravenous antiepileptic drugs [120].
4.3 Brain imaging
Brain computer tomography is a well-established measure to evaluate intracranial hemorrhage, edema, and mass lesions, and has been utilized for deciding the indication of thrombolytic therapy in acute ischemic stroke.
Initial use of brain magnetic resonance imaging is useful not only to detect cerebrovascular disorders and other neurological conditions but also to evaluate seizure foci and spread of seizures via neural network. Hyperintensity of diffusion-weighted imaging especially in the cortex and hyperperfusion of arterial spin labeling can help early diagnosis of nonconvulsive status epilepticus [118, 119, 121, 122].
5. Treatment strategy: adults in general, and in elderly
5.1 Prevention of post-stroke seizures and epilepsy
The prevalence of post-stroke early seizure is high; 4.8% for ischemic stroke and 7.9% for hemorrhagic stroke [5]. Current clinical guidelines recommend against the routine use of prophylactic antiepileptic drugs for spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage [64], because primary prevention of seizures with antiepileptic drugs does not improve neurological function during follow up (up to 90 days) [65]. For SAH, guidelines state that a short course (3 to 7 days) of prophylaxis with antiepileptic drugs may be started in the immediate post-bleeding period, although this prophylaxis has a low level of evidence [70]. PHT, which can cause worse cognitive outcomes, vasospasm, and infarctions, should be avoided to use for prophylaxis after SAH, and LEV is increasingly being used [70].
The prevalence of post-stroke late seizure is 3.8% for ischemic stroke and 2.6% for hemorrhagic stroke [5]. As the risk of recurrence after a first unprovoked late seizure can be as high as 71.5% over the next 10 years, the occurrence of a single late post-stroke seizure is consistent with a diagnosis of epilepsy. The risk factors for seizures after ischemic stroke were cortical involvement of infarction and stroke disability. For hemorrhagic stroke, the risk factor of seizures was cortical location. The risk factors in general for post-stroke early seizures during the first 48 hours include advanced age, confusional syndrome, hemorrhagic stroke, large lesions, involvement of parietal and temporal lobes, and occurrence of neurologic and medical complications [6].
None of the currently available antiepileptic medication has been shown to prevent PSE [123, 124, 125]. Immediate initiation of continuous antiepileptic medication treatment of the first early seizure after cerebral infarctions decreased the risk of recurrent seizure during the first 2 years but has no influence on the development of recurrent seizures after discontinuing antiepileptic medication in 2 years [124].
As mentioned in Chapter 4, anti-inflammatory therapy is the most expected strategy in order to prevent epileptogenesis. Statins, 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors, which are approved for cholesterol reduction, may also be beneficial in the treatment of inflammatory diseases. In animal experiment, atorvastatin reverses paralysis in central nervous system autoimmune disease via suppressing secretion of type 1 helper T cell (Th1) cytokines (IL-2, IL-12, interferon-Γ, and TNF-α) and promoting secretion of Th2 cytokines (IL-4, IL-5 and IL-10) and transform of growth factor-β, in Th1-mediated central nervous system demyelinating disease model of multiple sclerosis [126]. In patients with epilepsy, statin use, especially in the acute phase of ischemic stroke, may reduce the risk of post-stroke early-onset seizures [127]. Adequate statin treatment after ischemic stroke may lower the risk of PSE [128].
In the future, periodic measurement of inflammatory biomarker in the stroke patients having the risk factors as mentioned above and evaluation of the effect of anti-inflammatory agents such as statin to epileptogenicity are warranted.
5.2 Treatment of post-stroke seizures and epilepsy
The decision to initiate antiepileptic medication treatment after a first unprovoked seizure should be individualized and based on age, preference of a patient, and clinical, legal, and socio-cultural factors [129]. Upon commencement of treatment with antiepileptic medication, monotherapy is recommended, among various kinds of antiepileptic medication available. For patients with PSE especially with cerebral infarction, possible adverse event of lipid abnormalities should be avoided to prevent recurrent stroke. High tolerability, which is associated with minimum side effects such as sleepiness or dizziness, is important in elderly patients in terms of safety against falling as well as adherence improvement. In addition, drug interaction is a matter of concern in patients undergoing polypharmacy.
Patients who are treated with enzyme-inducing antiepileptic drugs such as carbamazepine (CBZ), PHT, and phenobarbital (PB) show higher levels of total cholesterol, triglycerides and LDL-cholesterol, although the effects of valproate (VPA) on lipid profiles remain unclear [130]. On the other hand, patients who are treated with enzyme-inhibiting antiepileptic drugs and non-enzyme-inducing antiepileptic drugs are not significantly affected their lipid profile, whereas several reports showed LEV could be associated with higher LDL-cholesterol levels [130]. Due to the side effects of antiepileptic drugs, treatment with non-enzyme-inducing antiepileptic drugs such as lamotrigine (LTG) and LEV is a reasonable treatment strategy in terms of lipid control [130]. In post-stroke seizures and epilepsy, LEV and LTG show higher tolerability than controlled-release CBZ [131].
Weight gain and obesity are associated with hypertension and atherosclerosis. It is well known that VPA, CBZ, PHT, gabapentin, vigabatrin, and pregabalin are associated with weight gain [132, 133, 134] while LTG and LEV are not [135, 136], and felbamate, topiramate (TPM), and zonisamide cause weight loss [137, 138].
Carotid-artery intima media thickness (CA-IMT) is an early marker of cerebral atherosclerosis [139]. The old-generation antiepileptic drugs such as CBZ, PHT and VPA are associated with significant increase of CA-IMT in adult patients with epilepsy [139, 140]. On the other hand, the new-generation antiepileptic drugs such as LTG and oxcarbazepine (OXC) have no effects on CA-IMT in adults and children [140, 141].
Hyperhomocysteinemia is an independent risk factor for stroke [142]. OXC, TPM, CBZ, and PB are associated with higher plasma total homocysteine level; adult epilepsy patients treated with LTG and LEV as monotherapy had normal total homocysteine level [143].
Currently, patients with PSE are rarely underwent pre-surgical evaluation even though their seizures are intractable. Good seizure outcome is reported in young generation under 50 years old whose epilepsy onset is at age 20 years or younger, who underwent tailored hemispherectomy based on the findings of stereoelectroencephalography recordings [144]. Approximately 3% of patients with cerebral dural arteriovenous fistula experience seizures [45]. Although status epilepticus is not common among patients with cerebral dural arteriovenous fistula, there is a case report that endovascular intervention improved the seizure control of patients with cerebral dural arteriovenous fistula who present with status epilepticus [145].
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