Investigators at the Roald Dahl EEG Unit, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation, Liverpool, UK, review the definition, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, and management of reflex anoxic seizures (RAS) in children.doi:10.15844/pedneurbriefs-27-10-3J Gordon Millichap...
Confusion, seizures, transient focal neurological symptoms are more suggestive. Visual disturbances such as visual field defects or blindness can occur. The most common aetiology remains uncontrolled HTN. Hypertensive encephalopathy may accompany MHT and is commonly associated with AKI and MAHA. It is a...
Among other presenting features, seizures are observed in approximately 6% of patients18. Focal neurological deficits are usually associated with an intraparenchymal haematoma or the location of an aneurysm, e.g. an oculomotor nerve palsy with pupillary dysfunction is associated with enlargement or ...
Around 1.2 million cases of acute meningitis occur every year in the world, resulting in 135,000 deaths. Mortality rates range from 2% to 30% while risk for developing neurologic sequelae (seizures, sensorineural hearing loss, hydrocephalus, etc) is as high as 30% to 50% for meningitis ...
Twelve of these children (18%) were initially deemed to have a contraindication to LP (five had new onset seizures, four had clinical signs of raised intracranial pressure, one had a new hemiplegia, one had hemisensory symptoms, and one had poor skin perfusion). For the remaining 11 ...
National General Practice Study of Epilepsy and Epileptic Seizures: objectives and study methodology of the largest reported prospective cohort study of ep... Most available data on the prognosis of epileptic seizures come from hospital-based clinics in which patients with chronic or severe disease are...
Ectopic prolactin secretion; primary hypothyroidism; chronic renal failure; cirrhosis; pseudocyesis; epileptic seizures; malnutrition; anorexia nervosa; chest (neurogenic, chest wall trauma, piercings, surgery, herpes zoster). Genetic Inactivating mutation in the gene encoding prolactin rece...
41 SNRIs are cautioned in patients with cardiovascular disease, bleeding disorders, mania, seizures, and raised intraocular pressure, and absolutely contraindicated in severe hepatic impairment, renal impairment with a CrCl <30 mL/min, pregnancy, breastfeeding, patients wi...
Confirmation of the diagnosis is important for patients and for parents of children with PHP and related disorders, as this guides appropriate management and prevents further, sometimes exten- sive, investigation of frequent presenting signs, such as growth failure, obesity and/or seizures, to ...
all cause gastrointestinal symptoms. Neuropathic and musculoskeletal pain are observed with arsenic and thallium. Central pain has been seen in arsenic poisoning, and hyperalgesia with thallium poisoning. Admission to the neurocritical care unit is usually a result of seizures, encephalopathy, severe perip...