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A patient with atonic seizures mimicking transient ischemic attacks

A focal atonic seizure is a partial seizure in which the ictal manifestation consists of paresis of the extremities or muscles on one side of the body, and this phenomenon can easily be misdiagnosed as a transient ischemic attack. An 86-year-old woman visited our hospital complaining of transient ri...

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Autores principales: Kang, Min-Ju, Choi, Jun Young, An, Young-Sil, Park, Ki-Hyung, Park, Hyeon-Mi, Lee, Yeong-Bae, Shin, Dong-Jin, Sung, Young Hee, Shin, Dong Hoon
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4389206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25870790
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ebcr.2015.03.001
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author Kang, Min-Ju
Choi, Jun Young
An, Young-Sil
Park, Ki-Hyung
Park, Hyeon-Mi
Lee, Yeong-Bae
Shin, Dong-Jin
Sung, Young Hee
Shin, Dong Hoon
author_facet Kang, Min-Ju
Choi, Jun Young
An, Young-Sil
Park, Ki-Hyung
Park, Hyeon-Mi
Lee, Yeong-Bae
Shin, Dong-Jin
Sung, Young Hee
Shin, Dong Hoon
author_sort Kang, Min-Ju
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description A focal atonic seizure is a partial seizure in which the ictal manifestation consists of paresis of the extremities or muscles on one side of the body, and this phenomenon can easily be misdiagnosed as a transient ischemic attack. An 86-year-old woman visited our hospital complaining of transient right upper extremity weakness lasting for 10 min following an unusual sensation in her chest accompanied by palpitations. On the third hospital day, she again complained of right arm weakness, which progressed to jerky movements of her right extremity accompanied by facial twitching and then generalized into a tonic–clonic seizure. The EEG displayed several interictal spikes in the contralateral temporal area, and the ictal SPECT, analyzed using the SISCOM system, showed an increased signal in both the contralateral superior parietal area and the mesial frontal area. In this case, the patient was diagnosed with focal atonic seizures as the cause of the monolimb weakness, which had been initially misdiagnosed aas transient ischemic attacks. In cases in which a patient presents with monolimb paresis, physicians should consider the possibility of an atonic seizure as the cause.
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spelling pubmed-43892062015-04-13 A patient with atonic seizures mimicking transient ischemic attacks Kang, Min-Ju Choi, Jun Young An, Young-Sil Park, Ki-Hyung Park, Hyeon-Mi Lee, Yeong-Bae Shin, Dong-Jin Sung, Young Hee Shin, Dong Hoon Epilepsy Behav Case Rep Case Report A focal atonic seizure is a partial seizure in which the ictal manifestation consists of paresis of the extremities or muscles on one side of the body, and this phenomenon can easily be misdiagnosed as a transient ischemic attack. An 86-year-old woman visited our hospital complaining of transient right upper extremity weakness lasting for 10 min following an unusual sensation in her chest accompanied by palpitations. On the third hospital day, she again complained of right arm weakness, which progressed to jerky movements of her right extremity accompanied by facial twitching and then generalized into a tonic–clonic seizure. The EEG displayed several interictal spikes in the contralateral temporal area, and the ictal SPECT, analyzed using the SISCOM system, showed an increased signal in both the contralateral superior parietal area and the mesial frontal area. In this case, the patient was diagnosed with focal atonic seizures as the cause of the monolimb weakness, which had been initially misdiagnosed aas transient ischemic attacks. In cases in which a patient presents with monolimb paresis, physicians should consider the possibility of an atonic seizure as the cause. Elsevier 2015-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4389206/ /pubmed/25870790 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ebcr.2015.03.001 Text en © 2015 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Kang, Min-Ju
Choi, Jun Young
An, Young-Sil
Park, Ki-Hyung
Park, Hyeon-Mi
Lee, Yeong-Bae
Shin, Dong-Jin
Sung, Young Hee
Shin, Dong Hoon
A patient with atonic seizures mimicking transient ischemic attacks
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title_short A patient with atonic seizures mimicking transient ischemic attacks
title_sort patient with atonic seizures mimicking transient ischemic attacks
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4389206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25870790
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ebcr.2015.03.001
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