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When seizures are not trivial!

Authors :
Prisca-Rolande Bassole
Mendinatou Agbetou
Maouly Fall
Marième Soda Diop-Sene
Anna Modji Basse-Faye
Adjaratou Dieynabou Sow
Lala Bouna Seck
Moustapha Ndiaye
Amadou Gallo Diop
Mouhamadou Mansour Ndiaye
Source :
PAMJ Clinical Medicine, Vol 3, Iss 77 (2020)
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
PAMJ, 2020.

Abstract

We report the case of a 29 year old woman with post traumatic epilepsy which began at 20 year old. She presented multi-daily absence seizures, motor automatisms and headaches. Brain CT-scan performed, highlighted several punctiform hyperdense images like calcifications leading to the conclusion of intracerebral and subcutaneous bullet fragments. Her personal history reported head injuries at the age of 2 years in a context of unexplored and little followed armed conflict. Awake and sleep EEG found a well-organized EEG diagram with diffuse inter ictal spikes and spike-waves discharges mainly in bi-fronto-temporal area compatible with focal epilepsy with secondary generalization. Valproic acid 1500 mg/day had been used and evolution at 3 months (April 2020) found no seizures increasing, sometimes headaches relieved by drugs.

Details

Language :
English, French
ISSN :
27072797
Volume :
3
Issue :
77
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
PAMJ Clinical Medicine
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.7fdd71f5c9f747d697322fe101a20768
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.11604/pamj-cm.2020.3.77.23431