[Epileptic Münchausen syndrome by idiosyncratic of effect antiepileptic drugs]

E Delmont; V Bourg; P Thomas

[Epileptic Münchausen syndrome by idiosyncratic of effect antiepileptic drugs]

Rev Neurol (Paris). 2003 Mar;159(3):313-5.

[Article in French]

Authors

E Delmont¹, V Bourg, P Thomas

Affiliation

¹ Service de Neurologie, Pavillon D, Hôpital Pasteur, 30, Voie Romaine, BP 69, 06002 Nice cedex 1.

PMID: 12703048

Abstract

Between 1996 and 2000, a 36-year-old woman was admitted four times for the presumed diagnosis of status epilepticus. Major skin allergy followed by collapsus occurred each time after intravenous phenytoin therapy. Video-EEG demonstrated non epileptic, psychogenic seizure leading to the diagnosis of Münchausen syndrome by idiosyncratic reaction to antiepileptic drugs.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Anticonvulsants / adverse effects*
Anticonvulsants / therapeutic use
Diazepam / therapeutic use
Electroencephalography
Epilepsy / chemically induced*
Epilepsy / diagnosis
Epilepsy / drug therapy
Female
Headache / psychology
Humans
Munchausen Syndrome / chemically induced*
Panic Disorder / drug therapy*
Panic Disorder / etiology
Phenytoin / adverse effects*
Thiopental / therapeutic use

Substances

Anticonvulsants
Phenytoin
Thiopental
Diazepam