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Nonconvulsive status epilepticus secondary to acute porphyria crisis
Both variegate and acute intermittent porphyria can manifest with various neurological symptoms. Although acute symptomatic seizures have been previously described, they are typically tonic–clonic and focal impaired awareness seizures.
Sara Dawit +7 more
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Longitudinal PET and MRI Evaluation in Late Onset Rasmussen Encephalitis: A Series of Three Cases
ABSTRACT Background Rasmussen's encephalitis (RE) is a rare, chronic, neurological disorder characterized by progressive focal epilepsy and hemispheric atrophy. Late‐onset RE poses diagnostic challenges due to atypical clinical features and nonspecific early MRI findings.
Laura Rozenblum +6 more
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Refractory seizures or status epilepticus (RS/SE) continues to be a challenge in the inpatient setting. Failure to abort a seizure with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) may lead to intubation and treatment with general anesthesia exposing patients to ...
Alexander B. Ramos MD, MS +4 more
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Diagnostic and Management Complexities in Epilepsia Partialis Continua: A Case Series [PDF]
Epilepsia Partialis Continua (EPC) is a variant of focal motor status epilepticus wherein frequent repetitive, usually rhythmic muscle jerks continue over prolonged periods of time. EPC can occur because of any space-occupying lesion, vascular aetiology,
Ritika Singh +4 more
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Functional hemispherotomy in Rasmussen syndrome in the absence of classic MRI findings
A 7-year-old previously healthy girl presented with a left-sided focal seizure without impaired consciousness and subsequently developed epilepsia partialis continua.
Yasunori Nagahama +6 more
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Movement disorders and epilepsy rarely occur in the early stage of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) but have not been reported concurrently. We report on a 47-year-old patient with probable CJD who presented with generalized chorea and focal dystonia with
Oztura, İBRAHİM +9 more
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Epilepsia partialis continua in a case of MELAS: clinical and neurophysiological study
There are few reports in the literature dealing with the association between mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) and epilepsia partialis continua (EPC) in children.
DALLA BERNARDINA, Bernardo +5 more
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Partial Seizures as An Early Symptom of Rasmussen’s Encephalitis
Early manifestations of Rasmussen’s encephalitis (RE) were studied in 12 patients with clinical and neuropathological diagnosis followed from disease onset by members of a study group in Milan and other centers in Italy.
J Gordon Millichap
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Stroke-induced epilepsia partialis continua
Objective: Focal status epilepticus requires timely diagnosis and treatment. Stroke is a common cause of epileptic seizures, but stroke-induced epilepsia partialis continua (SIEPC) is a rare type of focal status epilepticus with unknown management and ...
Amado Jiménez-Ruiz +6 more
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Alpers Syndrome with Hepatic Cirrhosis
Four children, from two families, with fatal degeneration of the cerebral grey matter and terminal hepatic dysfunction are reported from the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, Northern Ireland.
J Gordon Millichap
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