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Brain Source Imaging in Preclinical Rat Models of Focal Epilepsy using High-Resolution EEG Recordings
Published on: June 6, 2015
Probable sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease mimicking focal epilepsy
Pei-Shan Hsiao1,2, Yuan-Ming Lee1, Fu-Sin Chu2,3
1Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, No.169, Siaoshe Rd., Yilan City, Yilan County 26058, Taiwan.
Abstract:
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) presents with seizures as an early symptom in only approximately 3% of cases. These seizures often present as nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) or epilepsia partialis continua (EPC). Here, we describe a case of probable sporadic CJD (sCJD) in an 83-year-old man whose manifest an unusual presentation of left-hand tonic seizures without evolution to EPC, as well as brain MRI findings interpreted as peri-ictal changes, which led to an initial misdiagnosis of focal epilepsy.
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