Table of contents: Case Studies in Epilepsy : Common and Uncommon Presentations

Case Studies in Epilepsy : Common and Uncommon Presentations

Hermann Stefan, Elinor Ben-Menachem, Patrick Chauvel, and Renzo Guerrini

Description

Clinical case studies have long been recognized as a useful adjunct to problem-based learning and continuing professional development. They emphasize the need for clinical reasoning, integrative thinking, problem-solving, communication, teamwork and self-directed learning - all desirable generic skills for health care professionals. Epilepsy is amongst the most frequently encountered of neurological disorders. There are important emerging clinical management issues (e.g., first seizure, therapy-resistant seizures, ICU, pregnancy) but also differential diagnosis of non-epileptic seizures (syncopy, pseudo-seizure, paroxysmal dystonic syndromes, sleep disorders, psychosis, inborn errors of metabolism, etc.). This selection of epilepsy case studies will inform and challenge clinicians at all stages in their careers. Including both common and uncommon cases, Case Studies in Epilepsy reinforces the diagnostic skills and treatment decision-making processes necessary to treat epilepsy and other seizures confidently. Written by leading experts, the cases and discussions work through differential diagnoses, treatments and social consequences in pediatric and adult patients.

Table of Contents

Cover

pp Intro-Intro; 2 pages

  

Case Studies in Epilepsy: Common and Uncommon Presentations

pp i-ii; 2 pages

  

Title

pp iii-iii; 1 page

  

Copyright

pp iv-iv; 1 page

  

Contents

pp v-vii; 3 pages

  

Contributors

pp viii-x; 3 pages

  

Preface

pp xi-xii; 2 pages

  

Section 1: Diagnosis

pp 1-134; 142 pages

  

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Case 1 First seizure: is it epilepsy?

pp 1-2; 2 pages

  

Case 2: Intractable epilepsy and epilepsia partialis continua associated with respiratory chain deficiency

pp 3-5; 3 pages

  

Case 3 Reasons for violent behavior - when a man strangles his wife

pp 6-7; 2 pages

  

Case 4 Repetitive monocular eye adduction

pp 8-11; 4 pages

  

Case 5 Febrile infectious-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES)

pp 12-14; 3 pages

  

Case 6 Epileptic seizures as presenting symptom of the shaken baby syndrome

pp 15-18; 4 pages

  

Case 7 Benign rolandic epilepsy

pp 19-21; 3 pages

  

Case 8 New onset focal and generalized epilepsy in an elderly patient

pp 22-25; 4 pages

  

Case 9 When laughing makes the child fall down

pp 26-27; 2 pages

  

Case 10 Epileptic spasms and abnormal neuronal migration

pp 28-30; 3 pages

  

Case 11 A feeling of gooseflesh

pp 31-32; 2 pages

  

Case 12 Generalized epilepsy in adolescence as initial manifestation of Lafora disease

pp 33-36; 4 pages

  

Case 13 Epilepsy with a right temporal hyperintense lesion in MRI

pp 37-39; 3 pages

  

Case 14 Epileptic falling seizures associated with seizure-induced cardiac asystole in drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy

pp 40-43; 4 pages

  

Case 15 Seizures, dementia, and stroke?

pp 44-45; 2 pages

  

Case 16 Comorbidity in epilepsy - dual pathology resulting in simple focal, complex focal, and tonic-clonic seizures

pp 46-47; 2 pages

  

Case 17 Minor motor events

pp 48-50; 3 pages

  

Case 18 Epilepsy in the ring chromosome 20

pp 51-55; 5 pages

  

Case 19 A late diagnosis of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

pp 56-62; 7 pages

  

Case 20 Experiential phenomena in temporal lobe epilepsy

pp 63-70; 8 pages

  

Case 21 The use of depth EEG (SEEG) recordings in a case of frontal lobe epilepsy

pp 71-79; 9 pages

  

Case 22 A frontal lobe epilepsy surgery based on totally non-invasive investigations

pp 80-84; 5 pages

  

Case 23 A young man with reading-induced seizure

pp 85-87; 3 pages

  

Case 24 The lady from ``no-man´s-land´´

pp 88-92; 5 pages

  

Case 25 The man who came (too) late

pp 93-96; 12 pages

  

Case 26 Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis

pp 97-99; 3 pages

  

Case 27 Really a cerebrovascular story?

pp 100-101; 2 pages

  

Case 28 Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy - the ultimate failure

pp 102-103; 2 pages

  

Case 29 Blind but able to see

pp 104-107; 4 pages

  

Case 30 Seizure disorder Really unexpected?

pp 108-110; 3 pages

  

Case 31 Transient epileptic amnesia in late onset epilepsy

pp 111-112; 2 pages

  

Case 32 A really unexpected injury?

pp 113-116; 4 pages

  

Case 33 Epileptic negative myoclonus in benign rolandic epilepsy

pp 117-119; 3 pages

  

Case 34 Sporadic hemiplegic migraine

pp 120-121; 2 pages

  

Case 35 A strange symptom: psychotic or ictal?

pp 122-123; 2 pages

  

Case 36 Hearing voices: focal epilepsy guides diagnosis of genetic disease

pp 124-125; 2 pages

  

Case 37 Life-threatening status epilepticus due to focal cortical dysplasia

pp 126-129; 4 pages

  

Case 38 Childhood occipital idiopathic epilepsy

pp 130-134; 5 pages

  

Section 2: Treatment

pp 135-189; 55 pages

  

Index

pp 190-192; 3 pages