Stroke: predicting the risk of poststroke epilepsy-why and how?

摘要

After a stroke, seizures and later development of epilepsy can have a devastating impact on patient outcome and quality of life. Predicting the risk of developing poststroke epilepsy is currently an inexact science, and improving the accuracy of this process could lead to more-targeted use of prophylactic antiepileptic drugs for a defined period of time.