Epileptic Disorders
MENUPost-ictal subtle ptosis ipsilateral to mesial temporal lobe sclerosis Volume 24, issue 2, April 2022
Authors
1 Neurology Department, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
2 Neurosurgery Department, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
3 National Reference Center for Epilepsy Hospital Dr. Sótero del Río, Santiago, Chile
* Correspondence: Reinaldo Uribe San Martín
Neurology Department,
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Marcoleta 352, second floor,
Neurology Laboratory,
Neurology Service,
Complejo Asistencial Hospital Sótero del Río,
Santiago, Chile
- DOI : 10.1684/epd.2021.1385
- Page(s) : 438-41
- Published in: 2022
We present three patients with refractory epilepsy and left mesial temporal sclerosis, with ipsilateral subtle post-ictal ptosis, without evident anisocoria (figure 1, table 1), that could be explained by central autonomic dysfunction, similar to postictal bradycardia and asystole [1], different from both contralateral and ipsilateral ictal ptosis and miosis that have also been described [2, 3]. Not only the dentate gyrus but also the CA1 region of the hippocampus is involved [4]. The amygdala, through [...]
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