Eating Epilepsy in North India: Case Series and Its Management

Eating epilepsy is a rare form of reflex epilepsy where seizures are triggered by eating. We describe a case series of 12 such patients presenting to our epilepsy clinic based in North India. Eating epilepsy was noted to have male predominance with focal seizures with impaired awareness. Most of the...

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Autores principales: Singh, Pankaj, Bansal, Atma Ram, More, Aniruddha, Bhuyan, Susant, Garg, Arun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Epilepsy Society 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7251346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32509552
http://dx.doi.org/10.14581/jer.19019
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author Singh, Pankaj
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description Eating epilepsy is a rare form of reflex epilepsy where seizures are triggered by eating. We describe a case series of 12 such patients presenting to our epilepsy clinic based in North India. Eating epilepsy was noted to have male predominance with focal seizures with impaired awareness. Most of these patients had either temporal or perisylvian localization. Clobazam taken half an hour before meal was found to be an effective add-on therapy in its management.
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spelling pubmed-72513462020-06-05 Eating Epilepsy in North India: Case Series and Its Management Singh, Pankaj Bansal, Atma Ram More, Aniruddha Bhuyan, Susant Garg, Arun J Epilepsy Res Case Report Eating epilepsy is a rare form of reflex epilepsy where seizures are triggered by eating. We describe a case series of 12 such patients presenting to our epilepsy clinic based in North India. Eating epilepsy was noted to have male predominance with focal seizures with impaired awareness. Most of these patients had either temporal or perisylvian localization. Clobazam taken half an hour before meal was found to be an effective add-on therapy in its management. Korean Epilepsy Society 2019-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7251346/ /pubmed/32509552 http://dx.doi.org/10.14581/jer.19019 Text en Copyright © 2019 Korean Epilepsy Society This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Eating Epilepsy in North India: Case Series and Its Management
title Eating Epilepsy in North India: Case Series and Its Management
title_full Eating Epilepsy in North India: Case Series and Its Management
title_fullStr Eating Epilepsy in North India: Case Series and Its Management
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title_short Eating Epilepsy in North India: Case Series and Its Management
title_sort eating epilepsy in north india: case series and its management
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7251346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32509552
http://dx.doi.org/10.14581/jer.19019
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