Epileptic Disorders
MENUA case of post-leptospirosis autoimmune epilepsy presenting with sleep-related hypermotor seizures Volume 19, issue 4, December 2017
Authors
Department of Neurology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, Kerala, India
* Correspondence Siby Gopinath
Department of Neurology,
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences,
Kochi, Kerala 682041, India
- Key words: autoimmune encephalitis, autoimmune epilepsy, leptospirosis, sleep-related hypermotor seizures
- DOI : 10.1684/epd.2017.0941
- Page(s) : 456-60
- Published in: 2017
This video-illustrated case report concerns a 49-year-old woman who presented with sleep-related hypermotor seizures. The antecedent history of leptospirosis, high frequency of new-onset seizures, presence of an unclassified anti-neuronal antibody, and dramatic response to steroids strongly supported post-infectious immune-mediated pathogenesis in our patient. To the best of our knowledge, post-leptospirosis autoimmune epilepsy presenting as sleep-related hypermotor seizures has not hitherto been reported. [Published with video sequence on www.epilepticdisorders.com].