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Nonconvulsive status epilepticus causing acute confusion
1Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, Somerset, UK. giles.johnson@btinternet.com
Age and Ageing
|September 14, 2000
Abstract
Presentation:
an elderly patient presented with acute confusion and was found to have nonconvulsive status epilepticus. She responded to treatment with anti-epileptic drugs.
Outcome:
this case illustrates an important, under-recognized and reversible cause of acute prolonged confusion.