title: Chronic PLEDs with transitional rhythmic discharges (PLEDs-plus) in remote stroke.
abstract: Background. Periodic lateralized epileptiform discharges (PLEDs) are a rare phenomenon in electroencephalography, occurring in acute structural brain lesions. In general, PLEDs appear transiently in acute lesions, but a few reports have described persistent PLEDs in chronic lesions. Case report. An 86-year-old female was admitted, in 1999, with a left MCA stroke associated with right hand focal motor seizures. The first EEG in February of 2002 showed PLEDs over the left hemisphere associated with rhythmic discharges (PLEDs-plus). The patient was admitted on a second occasion in 2003 because of three sequential seizures and the EEG showed a similar pattern. Finally in 2006, the patient was admitted again because of sequential complex partial seizures and an EEG showed the same PLEDS-plus pattern as the EEGs of 2002 and 2003. Discussion. We report an unusual case of chronic PLEDs associated with rhythmic discharges in a patient with recurrent seizures and remote stroke.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. jftellez@yahoo.com
authors.forename: José F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Téllez-Zenteno
authors.forename: Sylaja N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Pillai
authors.forename: Michael D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.forename: Neelan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Pillay
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010507:Periodicity; D020521:Stroke / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*