This multicenter study titled "Diagnostic Yield and Therapeutic Impact of Etiologic Investigations After Status Epilepticus: Insights From the ICTAL Registry" was published in Neurology (2026), volume 107, issue 7, article e218544. The article was posted online 2026 Sep 21 and in print 2026 Oct 13. Citation identifiers include DOI 10.1212/WNL.0000000000218544 and PubMed PMID 42766827.
The publication lists a large collaborative author group led by Sébastien Repplinger and colleagues and includes multiple contributors from IctalGroup and numerous French intensive care and neurology departments. Prominent affiliations reported in the provided source excerpt include Médecine Intensive Réanimation, Centre Hospitalier de Versailles; IctalGroup (Le Chesnay); and intensive care units and university hospitals across France such as Nantes, Grenoble, Dijon, Brest, Lyon, Tours, and several regional centers.
From the title and article header, the study aims to evaluate the diagnostic yield and therapeutic impact of etiologic investigations performed after status epilepticus. The work draws on the ICTAL registry and represents a multicenter effort, suggesting a registry-based observational design with data aggregated from several French centers.
The clinical question implied by the title—how often etiologic testing after status epilepticus produces a definitive diagnosis and whether that testing meaningfully changes patient management—is highly relevant to both critical care and neurology practice. However, the supplied source text does not include the study abstract, methods, results, or conclusions needed to answer that question.
The ICTAL registry is named in the title as the data source for the study. The author list and affiliations indicate broad participation from the IctalGroup and many hospital intensive care units and university departments across France, reflecting a national multicenter collaboration. Beyond identifying the registry and the collaborative network, the provided excerpt does not describe registry inclusion criteria, data collection methods, timeframe, patient population, or which specific etiologic investigations were analyzed.
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No abstract text, study methods, statistical analyses, numerical findings, diagnostic categories, types of etiologic tests, therapy changes, or conclusions are included in the provided source material.
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