epilepsia partialis continua/headache

This report describes a 15-year-old male presenting with headaches and seizures after a viral illness progressing to intractable seizures of the right hand and face. This patient presented with diffuse white matter lesions on magnetic resonance imaging which disappeared with treatment. A relapse 6

Epilepsia partialis continua (EPC) is a rare epileptic syndrome characterized by continuous focal seizures. We report on a 16-year-old girl who died of prolonged pharmacoresistant EPC in whom we identified a 7472insC mutation within the mitochondrial transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA)(ser(UCN)).

Dengue fever is becoming a great public health problem leading to significant morbidity and mortality, particularly in developing countries. In the past few years, various neurological complications have been reported globally. Dengue encephalitis as a clinical presentation of dengue fever is now

A 38-year-old woman had an episode of headache, fever and convulsion in October, 1993. She became alert in two weeks, though weakness and atrophy remained in the upper limb muscles. She was diagnosed as Russian spring summer encephalitis (RSSE) based on several serological studies. Three kinds of

BACKGROUND Clinical characteristics of status epilepticus (SE) as a first manifestation in patients with MELAS who had not previously epileptic episode has been studied little in the literature. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to analyse precipitating factors, clinical characteristics, EEG and difficulties in

Approximately one-third of patients with epilepsy remain with pharmacologically intractable seizures. An emerging therapeutic modality for seizure suppression is repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). Despite being considered a safe technique, rTMS carries the risk of inducing

The C10orf2 gene encodes the mitochondrial DNA helicase Twinkle, which is one of the proteins important for mitochondrial DNA maintenance. Dominant mutations cause multiple mitochondrial DNA deletions and progressive external ophthalmoplegia, but recent findings associate recessive mutations with