Electrographic seizures are associated with brain injury in newborns undergoing therapeutic hypothermia

Shah, Divyen K., Wusthoff, Courtney J., Clarke, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6203-7632, Wyatt, John S., Ramaiah, Sridhar M., Dias, Ryan J., Becher, Julie Clare, Kapellou, Olga and Boardman, James P. (2014) Electrographic seizures are associated with brain injury in newborns undergoing therapeutic hypothermia. Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 99 (3). F219-F224. ISSN 1359-2998

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Abstract

Objective: Seizures are common among newborns with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) but the relationship between seizure burden and severity of brain injury among neonates receiving therapeutic hypothermia (TH) for HIE is unclear. We tested the hypothesis that seizure burden is associated with cerebral tissue injury independent of amplitude-integrated EEG (aEEG) background activity. Study design: Term neonates undergoing 72 h of TH at four centres were selected for study if they had continuous aEEG and MRI. The aEEG with corresponding 2-channel raw EEG (aEEG/EEG), was classified by severity of background and seizure burden; MR images were classified by the severity of tissue injury. Results: Of 85 neonates, 52% had seizures on aEEG/EEG. Overall, 35% had high seizure burden, 49% had abnormal aEEG background in the first 24 h and 36% had severe injury on MRI. Seizures were most common on the first day, with significant recurrence during and after rewarming. Factors associated with severe injury on MRI were high seizure burden, poor aEEG background, 10 min Apgar and the need for more than one anticonvulsant. In multivariate logistic regression, high seizure burden was independently associated with greater injury on MRI (OR 5.00, 95% CI 1.47 to 17.05 p=0.01). Neither aEEG background, nor 10 min Apgar score were significant. Conclusions: Electrographic seizure burden is associated with severity of brain injury on MRI in newborns with HIE undergoing TH, independent of degree of abnormality on aEEG background. Seizures are common during cooling, particularly on day 1, with a significant rebound on day 4.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: pediatrics, perinatology, and child health,obstetrics and gynaecology ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2735
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Date Deposited: 16 Oct 2020 23:57
Last Modified: 22 Oct 2022 07:18
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/77286
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2013-305206

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