Brain on FIRES: Super Refractory Seizure in a 7 yr Old Boy

We present a 7 yr old boy afflicted with super-refractory seizure that responded poorly to antiepileptic drugs and sustained a long course of hospitalization and complications of high doses of medications as well as longstanding stay in hospital. The differential diagnoses were, fever-induced refrac...

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Autores principales: Tavasoli, Alireza, GHARIB, Behdad, ALIZADEH, Houman, FARSHADMOGHADDAM, Hossein, MEMARIAN, Sara, ASHRAFI, Mahmoodreza, SHARIFZADE, Meisam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5100042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27843471
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author Tavasoli, Alireza
GHARIB, Behdad
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FARSHADMOGHADDAM, Hossein
MEMARIAN, Sara
ASHRAFI, Mahmoodreza
SHARIFZADE, Meisam
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description We present a 7 yr old boy afflicted with super-refractory seizure that responded poorly to antiepileptic drugs and sustained a long course of hospitalization and complications of high doses of medications as well as longstanding stay in hospital. The differential diagnoses were, fever-induced refractory epileptic encephalopathy (FIRES), and infectious and autoimmune encephalitis. However, work-ups had not revealed any evidence of any specific diagnosis, so we assumed that he was afflicted by viral infectious encephalitis as he had, fever, vomiting, and prodromal symptoms of infectious (most probably viral) disease prior to onset of the seizure attacks.
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spelling pubmed-51000422017-01-01 Brain on FIRES: Super Refractory Seizure in a 7 yr Old Boy Tavasoli, Alireza GHARIB, Behdad ALIZADEH, Houman FARSHADMOGHADDAM, Hossein MEMARIAN, Sara ASHRAFI, Mahmoodreza SHARIFZADE, Meisam Iran J Child Neurol Case Report We present a 7 yr old boy afflicted with super-refractory seizure that responded poorly to antiepileptic drugs and sustained a long course of hospitalization and complications of high doses of medications as well as longstanding stay in hospital. The differential diagnoses were, fever-induced refractory epileptic encephalopathy (FIRES), and infectious and autoimmune encephalitis. However, work-ups had not revealed any evidence of any specific diagnosis, so we assumed that he was afflicted by viral infectious encephalitis as he had, fever, vomiting, and prodromal symptoms of infectious (most probably viral) disease prior to onset of the seizure attacks. Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5100042/ /pubmed/27843471 Text en This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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GHARIB, Behdad
ALIZADEH, Houman
FARSHADMOGHADDAM, Hossein
MEMARIAN, Sara
ASHRAFI, Mahmoodreza
SHARIFZADE, Meisam
Brain on FIRES: Super Refractory Seizure in a 7 yr Old Boy
title Brain on FIRES: Super Refractory Seizure in a 7 yr Old Boy
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title_short Brain on FIRES: Super Refractory Seizure in a 7 yr Old Boy
title_sort brain on fires: super refractory seizure in a 7 yr old boy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5100042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27843471
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