Twenty-seven venous cutdowns to treat pseudostatus epilepticus.
Pseudoseizures are often misdiagnosed. We report a patient with pseudostatus epilepticus who has had 27 venous cutdowns on different occasions when she was admitted to hospital with repeated seizures.
Gunatilake
S B
SB
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.
De Silva
H J
HJ
Ranasinghe
G
G
D000328:Adult; D003291:Conversion Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D003422:Critical Care / Q000523:psychology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007046:Hysteria / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D013226:Status Epilepticus / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology; D016748:Venous Cutdown / Q000523:psychology*