Depression and dementia of cerebrovascular origin.

We report the case of a patient who presented various psychiatric syndromes at the time of evaluation - partial complex epileptic seizures, personality change, and severe depression, which eventually progressed to dementia - resulting from multiple cerebral infarctions of probable neuro-angiopathic origin, of unknown etiology. Aspects related to depression following cerebrovascular accidents, as well as how cerebrovascular accidents can result in different disorders depending on the variables, are discussed based on the data from current literature.

Complex partial seizures and aphasia as initial manifestations of non-ketotic hyperglycemia. Case report.

We describe a case of non-ketotic hyperglycemia (NKH), heralded by complex partial seizures and aphasia of epileptic origin, besides versive and partial motor seizures. This clinical picture was accompanied by left fronto-temporal spikes in the EEG. The seizures were controlled by carbamazepine only after the control of the diabetes. A month later, carbamazepine was discontinued. The patient remained without seizures, with normal language, using only glybenclamide. Complex partial seizures, opposed to simple partial seizures, are rarely described in association to NKH. Epileptic activity localized over language regions can manifest as aphasia.

Quistes aracnoideos de la cisura coroidea y epilepsia parcial compleja / Arachnoid cysts of the choroidien fissure and parcial complex epilepsy

El propósito del presente trabajo es mostrar la asociación de epilepsia parcial compleja con quistes aracnoideos de la fisura coroidea. Examinamos los informes de 71 pacientes portadores de quistes aracnoideos, estudiados por IRM o TAC, 10 fueron quistes de la fisura coroidea. De los 10 pacientes portadores de quistes aracnoideos de la cisura coroidea 5 presentaron antecedentes de epilepsia parcial compleja

Quistes aracnoideos de la cisura coroidea y epilepsia parcial compleja / Arachnoid cysts of the choroidien fissure and parcial complex epilepsy

El propósito del presente trabajo es mostrar la asociación de epilepsia parcial compleja con quistes aracnoideos de la fisura coroidea. Examinamos los informes de 71 pacientes portadores de quistes aracnoideos, estudiados por IRM o TAC, 10 fueron quistes de la fisura coroidea. De los 10 pacientes portadores de quistes aracnoideos de la cisura coroidea 5 presentaron antecedentes de epilepsia parcial compleja (AU)

Intractable complex partial seizures associated with posterior cerebral artery giant aneurysm: a case report.

Giant aneurysms have rarely been reported in association with intractable complex partial seizures (CPS). We report a 30-year-old man with intractable CPS since age 18 years. Seizure onset was electrically localized to right temporal lobe. Preoperative neuroimaging studies showed a partially thrombosed giant aneurysm of the right posterior cerebral artery. Selective amygdalohippocampectomy and occlusion of the posterior cerebral artery did not cause deficits. The patient has been seizure-free for 15 months after operation. We review the relevant literature on aneurysms as a cause of epilepsy.

[Focal crisis induced by movement in a patient with nonketotic hyperglycemia]. / Crises focais desencadeadas por movimento em paciente com hiperglicemia não cetótica.

Case report of a long term diabetic patient with partial motor crisis originating from passive movement of the right arm. This is a rare type of crisis when compared to spontaneous partial crisis in diabetic patients. Partial crises are often the initial manifestation of diabetes mellitus (about 19% of the cases reported). As in those cases registered in the literature, crisis control in this case was obtained by normalization of glycose serum levels. Possible mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis are discussed.