Table 3 Correlations between oxygen desaturation and seizure semiology, lateralization, and ictal onset zone
From: Frequency of peri-ictal apnea and cardiac arrhythmias in epileptic seizures
| Oxygen desaturation | Chi-square | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mild | Moderate | |||||
| N | % | N | % | χ2 | P value | |
| Type of seizure semiology | ||||||
| FOIA motor onset with automatism | 12 | 48.00 | 4 | 50.00 | 41.825 | <0.001* |
| FOIA nonmotor onset | 4 | 16.00 | 1 | 12.50 | ||
| FOIA motor onset hyperkinetic or FOA motor onset tonic or clonic | 2 | 8.00 | 2 | 25.00 | ||
| FBTCS | 6 | 24.00 | 1 | 12.50 | ||
| Absence | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| GTCs | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| Non convulsive seizure | 1 | 4.00 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| Ictal onset zone | ||||||
| Frontal | 6 | 24.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 62.296 | <0.001* |
| Temporal | 17 | 68.00 | 8 | 100.00 | ||
| Parietal | 2 | 8.00 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| Generalized | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| Seizure lateralization | ||||||
| Left | 14 | 56.00 | 3 | 37.50 | 28.007 | <0.001* |
| Right | 11 | 44.00 | 5 | 62.50 | ||
| Generalized | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | ||