Anxiety as the only manifestation of focal non-convulsive status epilepticus: case report and review of the literature.
Neurocase
; 26(2): 98-102, 2020 04.
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| ID: mdl-32228130
ABSTRACT
Psychiatric disorders represent common comorbidities in epileptic patients. Sometimes anxiety is part of the ictal semiology, especially during seizures arising from/involving frontal or temporal lobes. We describe a patient with focal epilepsy and recurrent hyperkinetic seizures who also presented prolonged episodes characterized by massive anxiety, alarm and fear. A Video-Electroencephalographic monitoring performed during one of these attacks revealed a continuous epileptiform activity over the right frontal regions, consistent with a focal non-convulsive status epilepticus accounting for the patient's psychiatric symptoms. Our case confirms the complex relationship between epilepsy and anxiety. A review of the literature is also included.
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Transtornos de Ansiedade
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Estado Epiléptico
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Epilepsias Parciais
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Adult
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Humans
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Male
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En
Ano de publicação:
2020
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Article