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A rare but treatable cause of recurrent chest pain - Ictal chest pain

BACKGROUND: Chest pain as the primary manifestation of epilepsy is extremely rare and has only been reported once to date. CASE PRESENTATION: We herein describe a 47-year-old woman with recurrent chest pain for 3 years. The cause of her chest pain remained elusive despite extensive investigations in...

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Autores principales: Khoo, Ching Soong, Lee, Dongah, Park, Kang Min, In Lee, Byung, Kim, Sung Eun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6936059/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31888520
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-019-1575-0
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author Khoo, Ching Soong
Lee, Dongah
Park, Kang Min
In Lee, Byung
Kim, Sung Eun
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description BACKGROUND: Chest pain as the primary manifestation of epilepsy is extremely rare and has only been reported once to date. CASE PRESENTATION: We herein describe a 47-year-old woman with recurrent chest pain for 3 years. The cause of her chest pain remained elusive despite extensive investigations including comprehensive cardiac work-up. She was referred to the neurology clinic for one episode of confusion. Video-electroencephalographic monitoring detected unequivocal ictal changes during her habitual chest pain events. She has remained chest pain (seizure) free with a single antiseizure drug. CONCLUSIONS: This case underlines the importance of epilepsy as a rare yet treatable cause of recurrent chest pain. Further studies are required to determine the pathophysiology of ictal chest pain.
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spelling pubmed-69360592019-12-31 A rare but treatable cause of recurrent chest pain - Ictal chest pain Khoo, Ching Soong Lee, Dongah Park, Kang Min In Lee, Byung Kim, Sung Eun BMC Neurol Case Report BACKGROUND: Chest pain as the primary manifestation of epilepsy is extremely rare and has only been reported once to date. CASE PRESENTATION: We herein describe a 47-year-old woman with recurrent chest pain for 3 years. The cause of her chest pain remained elusive despite extensive investigations including comprehensive cardiac work-up. She was referred to the neurology clinic for one episode of confusion. Video-electroencephalographic monitoring detected unequivocal ictal changes during her habitual chest pain events. She has remained chest pain (seizure) free with a single antiseizure drug. CONCLUSIONS: This case underlines the importance of epilepsy as a rare yet treatable cause of recurrent chest pain. Further studies are required to determine the pathophysiology of ictal chest pain. BioMed Central 2019-12-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6936059/ /pubmed/31888520 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-019-1575-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6936059/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31888520
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-019-1575-0
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