A Case of Recurrent Melancholia with Stupor

A Case of Melancholic Stupor (Psychocoma)

Recurrent stupor due to lysinuric protein intolerance.

Recurrent stupor in children is an uncommon clinical problem with a wide differential diagnosis; inherited metabolic disorders account for a vast majority. We report a 9-year-old girl with recurrent episodes of stupor. Initial episode was treated as viral encephalitis and the second episode was managed as non-convulsive status epilepticus. Hyperammonemia was detected in the last episode. Metabo...

Treatment of recurrent genital Herpes with Imiquimod: A case report

In this report, a 32 year-old patient is reported who was suffering from recurrent genital herpes for 3 years and her disease could not be controlled with conventional treatment methods. But, application of Imiquimod 5% cream, 3 times a week for 3 months, proved very effective with no recurrence for up to 7 months. Since recurrent genital herpes is the result of some immunologic dysfunctions ca...

Idiopathic recurrent stupor mimicking status epilepticus.

Stupor is defined as a deep sleep or behaviourally similar unresponsiveness from which the subject can be aroused only by vigorous repeated stimuli. Causes of stupor may be related to brain damage, toxic or metabolic encephalopathies. Idiopathic recurring stupor is a stupurous condition of unknown aetiology, unrelated to structural, toxic or metabolic disturbance. This condition responds to flu...

Modafinil in endozepine stupor. A case report.

BACKGROUND Endozepine-4 stupor is a rare disorder. It presents with recurrent episodes of stupor and coma. Endozepine-4 levels are elevated during an attack with electroencephalogram showing fast activity during the ictal phase. There is no specific treatment and various drugs have been tried without long-term benefit. METHOD We used the vigilance promoting drug modafinil to prevent such atta...