Reversible dementia: subclinical seizure in early‐onset dementia

We report a case of early‐onset dementia with subclinical seizures. Aggressive seizure control improved the patient's cognition. Commonly, an EEG is only performed following overt behavioral seizures. Therefore, subclinical seizures tend to be underdiagnosed. Serial or extended EEG should be se...

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Autores principales: Tjong, Elysia, McHugh, William, Peng, Yen‐Yi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5331190/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28265399
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.843
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description We report a case of early‐onset dementia with subclinical seizures. Aggressive seizure control improved the patient's cognition. Commonly, an EEG is only performed following overt behavioral seizures. Therefore, subclinical seizures tend to be underdiagnosed. Serial or extended EEG should be seriously considered in patients with early‐onset dementia.
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spelling pubmed-53311902017-03-06 Reversible dementia: subclinical seizure in early‐onset dementia Tjong, Elysia McHugh, William Peng, Yen‐Yi Clin Case Rep Case Reports We report a case of early‐onset dementia with subclinical seizures. Aggressive seizure control improved the patient's cognition. Commonly, an EEG is only performed following overt behavioral seizures. Therefore, subclinical seizures tend to be underdiagnosed. Serial or extended EEG should be seriously considered in patients with early‐onset dementia. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-02-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5331190/ /pubmed/28265399 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.843 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Reversible dementia: subclinical seizure in early‐onset dementia
title Reversible dementia: subclinical seizure in early‐onset dementia
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title_fullStr Reversible dementia: subclinical seizure in early‐onset dementia
title_full_unstemmed Reversible dementia: subclinical seizure in early‐onset dementia
title_short Reversible dementia: subclinical seizure in early‐onset dementia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5331190/
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