[Digestive epilepsy: think about, before surgery!].
BACKGROUND
Digestive epilepsy is a vegetative comitial at the origin of abdominal pain that can dress a variety of clinical pictures returning its diagnosis difficult. Gastroenterologists and abdominal surgeons poorly recognize this entity.


METHODS
To determine clinical characteristics of digestive epilepsy and its therapeutic modalities.


METHODS
We report the particular case of an epileptic 36-year-old patient who came in emergency twice in a pseudo-surgical abdominal picture having brought to a laparotomy. The diagnosis of digestive epilepsy was carried in front of a beam of clinical arguments and the negativity of explorations. An anti-convulsive treatment allowed the decline of the symptomatology.


CONCLUSIONS
Digestive epilepsy can be presented as a pseudo-surgical abdominal picture, so it is important to think about before surgery when there is a stereotyped symptomatology and whether the diagnosis of epilepsy is known or not.
Elloumi
Héla
H
Service de Gastro-entérologie, Hôpital Habib Thameur.
Dahmani
Zouheir
Z
Hadj
Najet Bel
NB
Ghorbel
Abdeljabbar
A
D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D000328:Adult; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male