Amnesic syndrome after theophylline associated seizures: iatrogenic brain injury.

Amnesic syndrome after theophylline associated seizures: iatrogenic brain injury.

Two patients developed a disabling amnesic syndrome after seizures associated with oral theophylline treatment. Such seizures are more likely in the elderly, in the presence of pre-existing neurological disease, and when theophylline is given with certain antibiotics and cimetidine. The mechanism of neuronal injury may be by the excessive release of endogenous excitotoxic glutamate.

Iatrogenic hyponatremic seizures after routine pelvic ultrasonic imaging.

We report the unusual case of a woman who suffered grand mal seizures in the emergency department after ingesting approximately 6 L of water in the course of preparing for a pelvic ultrasound examination. The cause appears to have been due to dilutional hyponatremia, despite normal renal function, caused by the rapid ingestion of a large volume of water. We believe the practice of encouraging p...

Joubert Syndrome Associated with Seizures.

Received: 23.10.2015; Accepted: 30.03.2017 Fig. 1: MRI Brain (T2 Axial) showing typical molar tooth sign Fig. 2: MRI Brain (T2 Axial) showing bat wing appearance of fourth ventricle dysplasia of pontine and medullary structures such as the basis pontis, reticular formation, inferior olivary, dorsa l co lumn and so l i tary t rac t nuclei. Moreover, typical findings are represented by the lack o...

Prevention of Seizures Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Nonconvulsive Seizures of Traumatic Brain Injury Patients

Seizures are common consequence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and have been reported in clinical series as an incidence of 15% to 22% in patients of traumatic brain injury. Nonconvulsive seizures (NCS) are also common that approximately 10% of patients have been suffered from electroencephalographically detected seizures during the acute period of TBI. Early posttraumatic seizures are one cau...