Two Focal Seizure in a Patient Caused by Different Mechanism
Journal of the Korean Neurological Association
;
: 322-326, 2021.
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in Korean
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| ID: wpr-916311
ABSTRACT
Poststroke epilepsy is the most common cause of epilepsy in adult. Acute symptomatic seizure is a provoked seizure usually caused by systemic metabolic disorders. If stroke patient has a seizure, it is very important to discriminate whether it is a poststroke epilepsy or provoked seizure. The reason is that there are differences in the approach to treatment and the continuation of antiepileptic drugs. We report a stroke mimic patient who had two different mechanisms of focal seizures.
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Korean
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Journal of the Korean Neurological Association
Year:
2021
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