ArticleNeurocritical care2020
Midline and Parasagittal Seizures are Rare in Adult Patients.
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- Point-of-Care EEG Artificial Intelligence Measure of Seizure Burden Associates With Clinical Outcome at Discharge.Critical care medicine · 2026Article
- Validation of a discrete electrographic seizure detection algorithm for extended-duration, reduced-channel wearable EEG.Epilepsia · 2025Article
- Seizure presentation and incidence-associated factors in treated cerebral arteriovenous malformations: a secondary analysis of the MISTA consortium.Neurosurgical review · 2025Article
- Comparative analysis of signal quality and usability for a novel wireless, wearable EEG sensor.Clinical neurophysiology practice · 2025Article
- Seizure Assessment and Forecasting With Efficient Rapid-EEG: A Retrospective Multicenter Comparative Effectiveness Study.Neurology · 2024Article
- Comparing Seizures Captured by Rapid Response EEG and Conventional EEG Recordings in a Multicenter Clinical Study.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Monitoring the Burden of Seizures and Highly Epileptiform Patterns in Critical Care with a Novel Machine Learning Method.Neurocritical care · 2021Article
- Diagnostic Value of Electroencephalography with Ten Electrodes in Critically Ill Patients.Neurocritical care · 2020Article
- Evaluating the Clinical Impact of Rapid Response Electroencephalography: The DECIDE Multicenter Prospective Observational Clinical Study.Critical care medicine · 2020Observational
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Abstract
backgroundFor decades, half of the electrodes used in traditional electroencephalography (EEG) have been dedicated to midline and parasagittal coverage. Recently, newer EEG devices have used fewer electrodes without direct coverage over the midline or parasagittal regions. However, no systematic study to date has explored the prevalence of midline parasagittal seizures, and as such the risk of missing such seizures with only ten electrodes remains unknown.
methodsWe reviewed retrospective EEG data from a cohort of 300 patients at Stanford University Medical Center and determined the frequency of seizures localized to the midline parasagittal regions. We then compiled previously reported EEG cohorts that reported the prevalence of midline parasagittal seizures to validate our findings.
resultsIn our cohort, only two EEGs (0.66%) were identified with a midline or parasagittal seizure focus. In a subsequent study, we compiled literature evidence from 169510 EEGs and found that the prevalence of midline or parasagittal epileptic spikes/seizures was similarly less than 1%.
conclusionsOur study serves as the first to systematically explore the scope of EEG abnormalities captured exclusively by midline or parasagittal electrodes and document their very low prevalence.
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