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Cerebrovascular
practice for EEG registry
Question | Answer |
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What EEG finding is most often associated with locked-in syndrome? | Normal awake and sleep patterns |
What EEG pattern is often seen following an acute cerebrovascular accident (cva)? | periodic lateralized epileptiform discharges (PLEDS) |
What EEG finding is most often associated with infarction within the territory of the posterior cerebral artery? | loss or decrease of alpha rhythm on the side of the stroke along with focal slowing in the posterior temporal, parietal and occipital regions. |
what EEG findings is most often associated with metabolic, especially hepatic and encephalopathy? | triphasic waves |
What EEG finding is most often associated with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE)? | Bilaterally symmetric and synchronous, high amplitude, periodic bursts every 4-10 seconds. |
What EEG finding is most often associated with herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE)? | focal temporal or frontotemporal spikes or sharp waves that can be unilateral or bilateral usually occurring periodically a a rate of 1 every 1 to 5 seconds. |
What EEG finding is most often associated with severe anoxic encephalopathy? | burst suppression that may or may not be associated with clinical myoclonic jerks. |
What EEG finding is most often associated with Creutzfeld-Jakob disease | Initially the EEG shows slower than normal activity with loss of normal background. With disease progression burst of moderate voltage biphasic and triphasic sharp waves at intervals of 2 to 1 or less than 1 per second. |