Psychomotor status--a female case in the 34th week of pregnancy.
A case report is presented here. A 33-year-old female who had been medicated with Chinese medicine showed a typical psychomotor status which conformed to all items of Heintel's and Treiman and Delgado-Escueta's diagnostic criteria of psychomotor status. When she was 33 years old in the 34th week of pregnancy on April 11, 1981, she was found to be in an epileptic twilight state during which a delirious state and some automatisms were observed. As the incidence of automatisms gradually increased, she was finally seized with a typical psychomotor status in which automatisms were quite periodically and frequently repeated without complete recovery of consciousness between seizures. This status still continued despite an intravenous injection of diazepam and phenytoin and barely ceased with the medication of clonazepam and carbamazepine four days after the beginning of the status.
D000328:Adult; D002220:Carbamazepine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002998:Clonazepam / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000188:drug therapy*; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000188:drug therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010936:Plant Extracts / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000188:drug therapy*
D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D010936:Plant Extracts; D002220:Carbamazepine; D002998:Clonazepam; C018142:saiko-keishi-to