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To the Editor: In their review article on epilepsy, Browne and Holmes (April 12 issue)¹ state that electroencephalographic studies should be performed 48 hours or more after a suspected seizure. We disagree. Studies of chronic partial epilepsy show that interictal epileptiform activity is more frequent after seizures (postictal activation).² Sundaram et al.³ reported an increased probability of finding interictal discharges (up to 77 percent) when patients were studied within two days after a seizure. In a recent study of 300 consecutive patients with a first unexplained seizure in whom electroencephalography was performed within 24 hours after the seizure, epileptiform abnormalities . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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