A Confusing Coincidence: Neonatal Hypoglycemic Seizures and Hyperekplexia

Hyperekplexia is a rare, nonepileptic, genetic, or sporadic neurologic disorder characterized by startle responses to acoustic, optic, or tactile stimuli. Genetic defects in glycine receptors as well as encephalitis, tumors, inflammation, and disgenesis are among the etiologic causes of the disease....

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Autores principales: Demir, Nihat, Doğan, Murat, Yılmaz, Sanem, Peker, Erdal, Bulan, Keziban, Tuncer, Oğuz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3982260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24782896
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/595412
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author Demir, Nihat
Doğan, Murat
Yılmaz, Sanem
Peker, Erdal
Bulan, Keziban
Tuncer, Oğuz
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Doğan, Murat
Yılmaz, Sanem
Peker, Erdal
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description Hyperekplexia is a rare, nonepileptic, genetic, or sporadic neurologic disorder characterized by startle responses to acoustic, optic, or tactile stimuli. Genetic defects in glycine receptors as well as encephalitis, tumors, inflammation, and disgenesis are among the etiologic causes of the disease. The main problem in hyperekplexia is the incomplete development of inhibitory mechanisms or exaggerated stimulation of excitatory mediators. Hyperekplexia is often confused with epileptic seizures. Here we present a case with hypoglycemic convulsions coexisting with hyperekplexia, causing diagnostic difficulty.
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spelling pubmed-39822602014-04-29 A Confusing Coincidence: Neonatal Hypoglycemic Seizures and Hyperekplexia Demir, Nihat Doğan, Murat Yılmaz, Sanem Peker, Erdal Bulan, Keziban Tuncer, Oğuz Case Rep Med Case Report Hyperekplexia is a rare, nonepileptic, genetic, or sporadic neurologic disorder characterized by startle responses to acoustic, optic, or tactile stimuli. Genetic defects in glycine receptors as well as encephalitis, tumors, inflammation, and disgenesis are among the etiologic causes of the disease. The main problem in hyperekplexia is the incomplete development of inhibitory mechanisms or exaggerated stimulation of excitatory mediators. Hyperekplexia is often confused with epileptic seizures. Here we present a case with hypoglycemic convulsions coexisting with hyperekplexia, causing diagnostic difficulty. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3982260/ /pubmed/24782896 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/595412 Text en Copyright © 2014 Nihat Demir et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Peker, Erdal
Bulan, Keziban
Tuncer, Oğuz
A Confusing Coincidence: Neonatal Hypoglycemic Seizures and Hyperekplexia
title A Confusing Coincidence: Neonatal Hypoglycemic Seizures and Hyperekplexia
title_full A Confusing Coincidence: Neonatal Hypoglycemic Seizures and Hyperekplexia
title_fullStr A Confusing Coincidence: Neonatal Hypoglycemic Seizures and Hyperekplexia
title_full_unstemmed A Confusing Coincidence: Neonatal Hypoglycemic Seizures and Hyperekplexia
title_short A Confusing Coincidence: Neonatal Hypoglycemic Seizures and Hyperekplexia
title_sort confusing coincidence: neonatal hypoglycemic seizures and hyperekplexia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3982260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24782896
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/595412
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