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ArticleEpilepsia open2023

Value of ultralong-term subcutaneous EEG monitoring for treatment decisions in temporal lobe epilepsy: A case report.

Martin Hirsch, Yulia Novitskaya, Andreas Schulze-Bonhage

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Article in Epilepsia open, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Seizure Detection Devices.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025
    Review
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  4. Cyclical underreporting of seizures in patient-based seizure documentation.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 3 countries.

Martin HirschEpilepsy Center, University Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4496-1458
Yulia NovitskayaEpilepsy Center, University Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0905-9936
Andreas Schulze-BonhageEpilepsy Center, University Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2382-0506
University of Freiburg · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Treatment decisions in epilepsy critically depend on information on the course of the disease, its severity and options for specific local interventions. We here report a patient with pharmaco-resistant non-lesional temporal lobe epilepsy with evidence for predominant right temporal epileptogenesis. While seizure frequency had been grossly underestimated for many years, ultralong-term monitoring with a subcutaneous EEG device revealed actual seizure frequency (66 over 11 months vs four patient-documented seizures), providing objective data on treatment efficacy and additional supportive lateralizing information that played a decisive role for the choice of surgical treatment, which had been rejected by the patient prior to this information.

Indexed as

EpilepsyEpilepsy, Temporal LobeElectroencephalographyHumansMonitoring, PhysiologicSeizuresepilepsy treatmentseizure lateralizationsubcutaneous EEGultralong-term EEG monitoring

Identifiers

PMID37842739
PMCPMC10690663
OpenAlexW4387661965

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