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Late-onset congenital adrenal hyperplasia: presentation as nonepileptic seizures
1Harvard Neuroendocrine Unit, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215.
Epilepsy & Behavior : E&B
|March 1, 2003
Abstract:
This is a report of a woman with refractory nonepileptic seizures, anxiety disorder, and rapidly cycling mood changes in whom high levels of excitatory neuroactive steroids due to late-onset congenital adrenal hyperplasia origin may have played a role in pathogenesis and in whom endocrine treatment was the only efficacious therapeutic modality.