Propofol pump controls nonconvulsive status epilepticus in a hepatic encephalopathy patient: A case report

Table 1 2015 Salzburg Electroencephalography Consensus Criteria for nonconvulsive status in patients without preexisting epileptic encephalopathy

2015 Salzburg Electroencephalography Consensus Criteria
Epileptiform discharge > 2.5/s
Or
Epileptiform discharge ≤ 2.5/s and at least one of the additional criteria:
1 Clinical and EEG improvements from antiepileptic drugs
2 Subtle clinical ictal phenomena
3 Typical spatiotemporal evolution

EEG: Electroencephalography.

Table 2 Nonconvulsive status epilepticus in hepatic encephalopathy patients

Age	Liver disease	Glasgow Coma Scale	Initial ammonia	Treatment	Country	Journal/Published year
64	HCV infection status post liver transplant	E4V3M5	501 µmol/L	Phenytoin, midazolam	United States	Western Journal of Emergency Medicine/2011
45	HCV related cirrhosis, HIV infection on HAART	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Pakistan	Journal of Medical Case Reports/2012
52	HBV related cirrhosis, HCC	E3V4M4 → E4V5M6 after lactulose and rifaximin (ammonia: 63) → E1V1M2 (ammonia: 112)	88 µmol/L	Unknown	Korea	World Journal of Gastroenterology/2015
38	Alcoholic cirrhosis	E1V3M1 (ammonia: 88.1 µmol/L) → E4V5M6 (ammonia: 48.7 µmol/L)	277.7 μmol/L → 88.1 µmol/L	Levetiracetam, propofol pump	Taiwan	World Journal of Clinical Cases/2019

HCV: Hepatitis C virus; HIV: Human immunodeficiency virus; HAART: Highly active antiretroviral therapy; HBV: Hepatitis B virus; HCC: Hepatocellular carcinoma.