Epileptic Disorders
MENURepetitive focal seizures evolving into ictal asystole: a case report with 18 seizures during video-EEG monitoring Volume 23, issue 6, December 2021
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1 The Epilepsy Clinic, Department of Neurology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
2 Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
* Correspondence: Anna Stefánsdóttir
The Epilepsy Clinic,
Department of Neurology,
Copenhagen University Hospital,
Rigshospitalet, Denmark
- DOI : 10.1684/epd.2021.1336
- Page(s) : 937-9
- Published in: 2021
We present the case of a 63-year-old male with epilepsy who was evaluated for epilepsy surgery. Since 1980, he had had episodes starting with a metallic taste and epigastric aura, sometimes progressing to déja-vu and subsequent loss of consciousness with oromandibular automatisms. In 2008, he was diagnosed with epilepsy after a first bilateral tonic-clonic seizure. Upon evaluation, the EEG showed spikes in the right mid-temporal region and MRI showed mesial temporal sclerosis and parietal [...]