Nonconvulsive status epilepticus as an unusual presentation of tuberculous meningoencephalitis: A case report

We describe a 50‐year‐old woman who was recently diagnosed with tuberculosis, with acute alteration in mental status. EEG showed nonconvulsive status epilepticus features. Brain MRI revealed multiple ring‐enhancing lesions. She responded well to treatment for both status epilepticus and tuberculosis...

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Autores principales: Tabatabaee, Seyedehnarges, Almasi‐Dooghaee, Mostafa, Gandomi‐Mohammadabadi, Alireza, Tabatabaei, Seyed‐Mohammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9913181/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36789303
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6921
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author Tabatabaee, Seyedehnarges
Almasi‐Dooghaee, Mostafa
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Tabatabaei, Seyed‐Mohammad
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description We describe a 50‐year‐old woman who was recently diagnosed with tuberculosis, with acute alteration in mental status. EEG showed nonconvulsive status epilepticus features. Brain MRI revealed multiple ring‐enhancing lesions. She responded well to treatment for both status epilepticus and tuberculosis. Her level of consciousness improved and she became fully aware.
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spelling pubmed-99131812023-02-13 Nonconvulsive status epilepticus as an unusual presentation of tuberculous meningoencephalitis: A case report Tabatabaee, Seyedehnarges Almasi‐Dooghaee, Mostafa Gandomi‐Mohammadabadi, Alireza Tabatabaei, Seyed‐Mohammad Clin Case Rep Case Report We describe a 50‐year‐old woman who was recently diagnosed with tuberculosis, with acute alteration in mental status. EEG showed nonconvulsive status epilepticus features. Brain MRI revealed multiple ring‐enhancing lesions. She responded well to treatment for both status epilepticus and tuberculosis. Her level of consciousness improved and she became fully aware. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9913181/ /pubmed/36789303 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6921 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://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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Tabatabaee, Seyedehnarges
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Tabatabaei, Seyed‐Mohammad
Nonconvulsive status epilepticus as an unusual presentation of tuberculous meningoencephalitis: A case report
title Nonconvulsive status epilepticus as an unusual presentation of tuberculous meningoencephalitis: A case report
title_full Nonconvulsive status epilepticus as an unusual presentation of tuberculous meningoencephalitis: A case report
title_fullStr Nonconvulsive status epilepticus as an unusual presentation of tuberculous meningoencephalitis: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Nonconvulsive status epilepticus as an unusual presentation of tuberculous meningoencephalitis: A case report
title_short Nonconvulsive status epilepticus as an unusual presentation of tuberculous meningoencephalitis: A case report
title_sort nonconvulsive status epilepticus as an unusual presentation of tuberculous meningoencephalitis: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9913181/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36789303
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6921
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