Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease presenting as nonconvulsive status epilepticus case report and review of the literature

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 537-540

  Espinosa, Patricio S ^a   Bensalem Owen, Meriem K ^a   Fee, Dominic B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Nonconvulsive status epilepticus; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ETIRACETAM; LACTULOSE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PROPOFOL; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; DEATH; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HAND TREMOR; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MENTAL FUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SEROLOGY; SPORADIC CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 77952887690     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2010.03.025     Document Type: Article

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