Breach rhythm may be suppressed as a form of Todd's paralysis / Cristina Lyudmilov, Daina Petersone, Christian Schmidt, Julian Bösel, Johannes Rösche

This case report will provide further evidence for the fact that breach rhythm is not the effect of a bone abnormality only. We present the case of an 84-year-old woman, who had a craniotomy 14 month before admission to our emergency department with a focal inhibitory status epilepticus. Even after clinical recovery, electroencephalography revealed frequent subclinical seizure patterns. When seizure activity was suppressed by anticonvulsive medication with levetiracetam, breach rhythm appeared. Breach rhythm develops usually some months after craniotomy and therefore should have been established in our patient at the time of admission. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that it was in some way suppressed by the seizure activity in our primary EEG recordings. The appearance of the breach rhythm after the complete suppression of seizure activity by antiepileptic drug treatment shows that breach rhythm is not purely the result of a skull defect but is related to the functional state of the brain tissue beneath..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

May 2020

2020

Erschienen:

May 2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:37

Enthalten in:

Journal of clinical neurophysiology - 37(2020), 3, Seite 271-273

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lyudmilov, Cristina [VerfasserIn]
Petersone, Daina [VerfasserIn]
Schmidt, Christian [VerfasserIn]
Bösel, Julian, 1971- [VerfasserIn]
Rösche, Johannes, 1963- [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

Aged, 80 and over
Anticonvulsants
Brain
Craniotomy
Electroencephalography
Epilepsies, Partial
Female
Humans
Levetiracetam
Paralysis
Seizures

Anmerkungen:

Gesehen am 30.10.2020

Umfang:

3

doi:

10.1097/WNP.0000000000000683

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

1737478293