Status epilepticus (SE) is a clinical emergency with a prevalence of 0.1%, with approximately 50% of the cases occurring in children younger than 2 years of age. Retrospective studies indicate that up to 80% of patients with drug-refractory temporal lobe epilepsy in adulthood had childhood SE or prolonged febrile seizures. Up to 60% of patients exhibit neurological sequelae as a consequence of SE. Studies on experimental animals demonstrate that pattern and severity of SE-induced functional and morphological damage are highly age-dependent. Extension of neuronal loss and cognitive or behavioural impairment increase with age at SE. In contrast, age affects pattern and severity of recurrent seizures rather than incidence of epilepsy in surviving individuals. Thus, we hypothesize that neuronal loss is not only factor responsible for functional impairment, but there are other age-related morphological changes involved in both acute and long-term consequences of SE. Among them white matter injury can repr (en)
Cílem projektu je zjistit, jestli status epilepticus v nezralém mozku vyvolává poškození bílé hmoty, jakou roli hraje v tomto poškození zánětlivá reakce, a jak je rozsah a charakter poškození (včetně vzniku epilepsie) ovlivněn tělesnou teplotou během SE. (cs)