Eight-year-old Boy with New-onset Seizure

An eight-year-old boy presented to the emergency department for a first-time seizure. The patient had only signs of mild dehydration on physical exam and had an uneventful postictal recovery. First-time seizures in pediatric patients are often benign and require only an outpatient workup; some are d...

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Autores principales: Rosenblatt, Lauren, Khoujah, Danya, Dezman, Zachary D.W., Bontempo, Laura J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019
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Clinicopathological Cases from the University of Maryland
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6497194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31061959
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.4.42547
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author Rosenblatt, Lauren
Khoujah, Danya
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description An eight-year-old boy presented to the emergency department for a first-time seizure. The patient had only signs of mild dehydration on physical exam and had an uneventful postictal recovery. First-time seizures in pediatric patients are often benign and require only an outpatient workup; some are dangerous. This case takes the reader through the differential diagnosis and systematic work-up of new-onset pediatric seizures, leading to an unanticipated diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-64971942019-05-06 Eight-year-old Boy with New-onset Seizure Rosenblatt, Lauren Khoujah, Danya Dezman, Zachary D.W. Bontempo, Laura J. Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Clinicopathological Cases from the University of Maryland An eight-year-old boy presented to the emergency department for a first-time seizure. The patient had only signs of mild dehydration on physical exam and had an uneventful postictal recovery. First-time seizures in pediatric patients are often benign and require only an outpatient workup; some are dangerous. This case takes the reader through the differential diagnosis and systematic work-up of new-onset pediatric seizures, leading to an unanticipated diagnosis. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6497194/ /pubmed/31061959 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.4.42547 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Rosenblatt et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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title_full Eight-year-old Boy with New-onset Seizure
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title_short Eight-year-old Boy with New-onset Seizure
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6497194/
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