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Electroclinical Correlation Examined by Simultaneous VTR‐EEG Monitoring in a Patient with Complex Partial Status Epilepticus
Author(s) -
Fukunishi Isao,
Kugoh Toshiaki,
Hosokawa Kiyoshi
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1989.tb02567.x
Subject(s) - status epilepticus , electroencephalography , complex partial seizures , correlation , partial correlation , psychology , audiology , medicine , neuroscience , epilepsy , temporal lobe , mathematics , geometry
We discussed the electroclinical correlation of complex partial status epilepticus (CPSE) followed up by simultaneous VTR‐EEG monitoring. An eight‐year‐old boy had repetitive seizures lasting for 30 to 90 minutes in addition to ordinary seizures with typical oral automatism of a few minutes duration. This case fulfilled the criteria for diagnosis of CPSE by Treiman el al . (1983), and was classified as the discontinuous type of CPSE described by Gastaut et al . (1975). The clinical symptoms were characterized by a repeated occurrence of psychomotor arrest and automatic phases. The EEG showed an alternate appearance of two phases. One was characterized by 7 to 8 Hz theta or slow alpha waves and the other by 4 to 6 Hz theta waves, respectively.