Increasing Seizures, Encephalopathy, and Hypothermia in an 18-Year-Old Woman-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Increasing Seizures, Encephalopathy, and Hypothermia in an 18-Year-Old Woman

Published:2023-02-09 Issue:3 Volume:151 Page:
ISSN:0031-4005
Container-title:Pediatrics
language:en
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Author:

Thompson Tika Zbornik¹,Rearick William A.²,Pizzuto Matthew F.³,Quinsey Carolyn⁴,Enyart Catherine E.²,Trau Steven P.⁵

Affiliation:

1. aUNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

2. bDivisions of Hospital Medicine

3. cCritical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics

4. dDepartment of Neurosurgery

5. eDivision of Child Neurology, Department of Neurology

Abstract

Abstract An 18-year-old woman with a history of focal epilepsy presents with increasingly frequent seizures, encephalopathy, multiple laboratory abnormalities, and hypothermia. During her hospital course, her symptoms waxed and waned. Multiple etiologies of her symptoms were considered, but the spontaneous resolution of her symptoms and an abnormal MRI of the brain revealed the final diagnosis.

Publisher

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Subject

Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

Link

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-pdf/doi/10.1542/peds.2022-057229/1565166/peds_2022057229.pdf

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