Role of Short Term Video Encephalography with Induction by Verbal Suggestion in Diagnosis of Suspected Paroxysmal Nonepileptic Seizure-Like Symptoms

Table 1

Details of findings on STVEEG.

	Male	Female	Total
Recording	38	117	155
PNES	19	90	109 (70.3%)
Epilepsy	6	20	26
Focal epileptiform discharges	5	19	24 (15.4%)
Primary generalized discharges	1	1	2 (1.2%)
Actual seizure recorded	3	4	7 (4.5%)
Others	2	1	3 (1.9%)
Undetermined (normal EEG and no episode inducible)	6	11	17 (10.9%)
Both epilepsy and PNES	2	7	9 (5.8%)

had ventricular tachycardia and 2 patients had heart block.
PNES: paroxysmal nonepileptic seizure-like symptom.
EEG: electroencephalography.
STVEEG: short term video EEG.