Episodic respiratory failure due to focal epileptic activity.
We report on a patient with a complicated course after surgical abdominal intervention and episodic life threatening respiratory failures successfully treated with carbamazepine after diagnosis of a ponto-medullary lesion in the MRI.
Alldinger
Ingo
I
Department of General and Visceral Surgery, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University, Germany. ingo.alldinger@med.uni-duesseldorf.de
Siebler
M
M
Peiper
M
M
Cupisti
K
K
Rado
Y
Y
Kindgen-Milles
D
D
Knoefel
W T
WT
D000328:Adult; D000927:Anticonvulsants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001062:Appendectomy / Q000009:adverse effects; D020295:Brain Stem Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D002220:Carbamazepine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology*
D000927:Anticonvulsants; D002220:Carbamazepine