interictal
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- (medicine) Between episodes, attacks, or paroxysms; as (usually, more specifically):
- (medicine) Between epileptic seizures.
- 2009, François Manguière, Isabelle Merlet, Julien Jung, “66: Experimental Neurophysiological Techniques”, in Simon D. Shorvon, Emilio Perucca, Jerome Engel, Jr., editors, The Treatment of Epilepsy, page 839:
- Considering these data, the spatial relationships between lesions and the localization of interictal spikes can vary and seem to depend on the lesion type.
- 2012, José L. Fernández-Torre, “101: Interictal EEG”, in C. P. Panayiotopoulos, S.R. Benbadis, R.G. Beran, A.T. Berg, J. Engel, Jr., A.S. Galanopoulou, editors, Atlas of Epilepsies, volume 3, page 701:
- The diagnosis of epilepsy is primarily clinical; however, routine interictal EEG plays a crucial role in the diagnosis and management of patients with this paroxysmal neurological disorder (Binnie and Stefan 1999; Pillai and Sperling 2006).
- 2012, Daniel C. Potts, James D. Geyer, Paul R. Carney, “Chapter 30: Sleep Disorders and Degenerative Neurologic Disorders”, in Paul R. Carney, Richard B. Berry, James D. Geyer, editors, Clinical Sleep Disorders, page 400:
- This sleep disruption may, in part, be related to the interictal discharge. The interictal discharge is the electrical signature typically associated with epilepsy between seizures.
- 2012, Margitta Seeck, Donald L. Schomer, Ernst Nidermeyer, Chapter 33: Intercranial Monitoring: Depth, Subdural, and Foramen Ovale Electrodes, Donald L. Schomer, Fernando Lopes da Silva (editors), Niedermeyer's Electroencephalography, page 677,
- This may be the reason why most authorities in the field recommend relying mainly on the ictal data, and less on the interictal EEG.
- (medicine) Between epileptic seizures.