Bilateral focal motor status epilepticus with retained consciousness after stroke.
Bilateral motor seizures with retained consciousness are rare and often mistaken for pseudoseizures. In the few reported cases, the seizures were brief and the underlying lesion usually was a tumor. Here the authors describe a patient with bilateral focal motor status epilepticus with retained consciousness after a stroke. A seizure should be considered as the possible cause of continuous bilateral limb movements with retained consciousness.
Ashkenazi
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Neurology Department, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
Kaufman
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Ben-Hur
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D000368:Aged; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D013226:Status Epilepticus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D020521:Stroke / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed