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Cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis following simple, complex partial, and generalized tonic‐clonic seizures
Author(s) -
Devinsky Orrin,
Nadi N. Suzan,
Theodore William H.,
Porter Roger J.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
annals of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.764
H-Index - 296
eISSN - 1531-8249
pISSN - 0364-5134
DOI - 10.1002/ana.410230418
Subject(s) - pleocytosis , cerebrospinal fluid , epilepsy , csf pleocytosis , medicine , tonic (physiology) , partial seizures , anesthesia , pathology , psychiatry
We observed postictal pleocytosis in 7 of 62 cerebrospinal fluid specimens obtained from 27 patients with epilepsy. Each patient had a known seizure disorder; none had any other cause for the pleocytosis. The maximum number of leukocytes was 12/mm 3 ; the maximum number of erythrocytes was 190/mm 3 . Postictal pleocytosis was more common in samples obtained within 12 hours of the last seizure. Although previous studies have emphasized that pleocytosis is more common after repetitive generalized tonic‐clonic seizures, we found increased leukocyte counts in cerebrospinal fluid after single simple, complex partial, or generalized tonic‐clonic seizures.