Bilateral focal motor status epilepticus with retained consciousness after stroke

Neurology. 2000 Feb 22;54(4):976-8. doi: 10.1212/wnl.54.4.976.

Abstract

Bilateral motor seizures with retained consciousness are rare and often mistaken for pseudoseizures. In the few reported cases, the seizures were brief and the underlying lesion usually was a tumor. Here the authors describe a patient with bilateral focal motor status epilepticus with retained consciousness after a stroke. A seizure should be considered as the possible cause of continuous bilateral limb movements with retained consciousness.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain / physiopathology
  • Consciousness / physiology*
  • Electroencephalography
  • Female
  • Functional Laterality / physiology
  • Humans
  • Status Epilepticus / diagnostic imaging
  • Status Epilepticus / physiopathology*
  • Stroke / physiopathology*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed