[Digestive epilepsy: think about, before surgery]

ABSTRACT

Digestive epilepsy is a vegetative comitial at the origin of abdominal pain that can dress a variety of clinical pictures returning its diagnosis difficult. Gastroenterologists and abdominal surgeons poorly recognize this entity to determine clinical characteristics of digestive epilepsy and its therapeutic modalities. Patient and method: We report the particular case of an epileptic 36-year-old patient who came in emergency twice in a pseudo-surgical abdominal picture having brought to a laparotomy. The diagnosis of digestive epilepsy was carried in front of a beam of clinical arguments and the negativity of explorations. An anti-convulsive treatment allowed the decline of the symptomatology digestive epilepsy can be presented as a pseudo-surgical abdominal picture, so it is important to think about before surgery when there is a stereotyped symptomatology and whether the diagnosis of epilepsy is known or not