Abstract

Stroke patients who underwent continuous EEG (cEEG) monitoring within 7 days of presentation and developed post‐stroke epilepsy (PSE; cases, n = 36) were matched (1:2 ratio) by age and follow‐up duration with ones who did not (controls, n = 72). Variables significant on univariable analysis [hypertension, smoking, hemorrhagic conversion, pre‐cEEG convulsive seizures, and epileptiform abnormalities (EAs)] were included in the multivariable logistic model and only the presence of EAs on EEG remained significant PSE predictor [OR = 11.9 (1.75–491.6)]. With acute EAs independently predicting PSE development, accounting for their presence may help to tailor post‐acute symptomatic seizure management and aid anti‐epileptogenesis therapy trials.

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