Current Concepts of Immunology and Diagnosis in Amniotic Fluid Embolism by Michael D. Benson

“…It is diagnosed based on one or more of four key signs/symptoms: cardiovascular collapse, respiratory distress, coagulopathy, and/or coma/seizures. The only laboratory test that reliably supports the diagnosis is the finding of fetal material in the maternal pulmonary circulation at autopsy. …”
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A Review of Nonanesthetic Uses of Ketamine by Abby Pribish, Nicole Wood, Arun Kalava

“…MEDLINE, CINAHL, and Google Scholar databases were queried to find articles related to ketamine in the treatment of depression, pain syndromes including acute pain, chronic pain, and headache, neurologic applications including neuroprotection and seizures, and alcohol and substance use disorders. …”
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Vici Syndrome: A Rare Autosomal Recessive Syndrome with Brain Anomalies, Cardiomyopathy, and Severe Intellectual Disability by R. Curtis Rogers, Bridgette Aufmuth, Stephanie Monesson

“…The summary of findings present in these patients includes postnatal growth retardation, developmental delay, bilateral cataracts, agenesis of the corpus callosum, cerebellar anomalies, gyral abnormalities, seizures, hypotonia, and cardiomyopathy. Conclusion. …”
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Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome. Case report and literature review by Dianarelys Villafuerte Delgado, Ernesto Pérez Martínez, Félix González Pérez

“…This is the case of a 26-year-old woman with a personal history of apparent health, who after an eutocic delivery suffered hypovolemic shock, product of postpartum hemorrhage due to uterine atony resulting in subtotal obstetric hysterectomy, mechanical ventilation with triple vasoactive support; after a favorable progress, she began with severe headache and visual disorders, high blood pressure and presented two episodes of generalized tonic-clonic seizures. A skull/brain CT scan of was performed and brain magnetic resonance study was also requested. …”
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Profound Autonomic Instability Complicated by Multiple Episodes of Cardiac Asystole and Refractory Bradycardia in a Patient with Anti-NMDA Encephalitis by Stephanie R. Mehr, Roy C. Neeley, Melissa Wiley, Avinash B. Kumar

“…First described about a decade ago, it frequently manifests as a syndrome that includes progressive behavioral changes, psychosis, central hypoventilation, seizures, and autonomic instability. Although cardiac arrhythmias often accompany anti-NMDARE, the need for long-term electrophysiological support is rare. …”
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A Novel Mutation in the Adult-Onset Alexander’s Disease GFAP Gene by Dhillon B. Zaver, Nathan T. Douthit

“…Her presenting complaints included incontinence, clumsiness, seizures, dysphagia, and dysarthria. She was also found to have pancytopenia and dysautonomia. …”
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Cutaneous Manifestation Maple Syrup Urine Disease: Case Report by Gabriel Alejandro Díaz Bernal, Mányeles Brito Vázquez, Magdalena de la Caridad Guirado Espinosa

“…The case of a transitional male is presented, who at 10 days after birth presented with neonatal seizures, associated with metabolic acidosis and cerebral edema, increased levels of amino acids in urine, skin lesions suggestive of dysmetabolic acrodermatitis that were colonized by staphylococcus which caused lethal staphylococcal toxic shock at 2 years of age. …”
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Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome Associated with Tacrolimus in Cardiac Transplantation by Julián Alejandro Rivillas, Stephania Galindo-Coral, Francisco Arias-Mora, Juan David Lopez-Ponce de Leon, Noel Alberto Florez-Alarcón, Pastor Olaya-Rojas, Juan Esteban Gomez-Mesa

“…Neurological complications occur between 50 and 70% of patients with heart transplantation, including cerebrovascular events, infections, seizures, encephalopathy, and neurotoxicity due to pharmacological immunosuppression. …”
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Polyarteritis Nodosa Presenting with Ischemic Stroke: A Case Report by Samaher Almousa, Ritta Muhamad, Farah Salameh, Abdallah Alahmad, Bana Kasem, Hala Wannous

“…Central nervous system (CNS) involvement is rare in this disease, manifesting as encephalopathy, headache, seizures, and stroke. However, stroke can be ischemic or hemorrhagic, and it is extremely rare as an initial manifestation of PAN. …”
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Clinical analysis and case series report on autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy presenting with autonomic dysfunction by Xiao Ke Wu, Guojie Zhai, Jin Ru Zhang, Hua Ping Du, Lan Hu, Shu Ye Yu, Hai Lun Hang, Sirui Han, Yanlin Zhang, Yuan Xu

“…Blood pressure variability is related to cerebrospinal fluid pressure and convulsive seizures. Heart rate variability is related to disorders of consciousness. unusual sweating was associated to age, gender, cerebrospinal fluid protein content and convulsive seizures. …”
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Preventing epileptogenesis by interaction between inositol isomers and proteins by Lia Tsverava, Luka Kharkhelauri, Vincenzo Lagani, Giorgi Gamkrelidze, Veriko Bokuchava, Tamar Kiguradze, Merab Kokaia, Revaz Solomonia

“…The duration and frequencies of behavioral spontaneous recurrent seizures (SRS) were scored for 8 weeks by 24 h video monitoring system. …”
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Parents'/caregivers' fears and concerns about their child's epilepsy: A scoping review. by Bernie Carter, Georgia Cook, Lucy Bray, Amber Collingwood, Holly Saron, Alison Rouncefield-Swales

“…The review findings indicate that parents'/caregivers' fears and concerns stem from more than their child's seizures and relate to many wider aspects of family life. …”
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Highest Recorded Serum Creatinine by Christine Persaud, Uttsav Sandesara, Victor Hoang, Joshua Tate, Wayne Latack, David Dado

“…He initially presented with uremia and signs of acute renal allograft failure after two months of immunosuppressive medication nonadherence, ultimately requiring emergent hemodialysis, which was complicated by new onset seizures. This was the patient’s fourth episode of late acute rejection and emphasizes the need for education of immunosuppressant adherence and periodic monitoring of renal function in high-risk patients. …”
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A SMARCA2 Mutation in the First Case Report of Nicolaides-Baraitser Syndrome in Latin America: Genotype-Phenotype Correlation by Ana Isabel Sánchez, Jorge Armando Rojas

“…The most important characteristics include intellectual disability, peculiar facial features including sparse scalp hair, coarse facial features, low frontal hairline, and microcephaly, and seizures. Additional features may include epicanthic folds, thin upper lip vermilion with thick lower lip vermilion, skeletal abnormalities, and severe language impairment. …”
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Withdrawal from Long-Term Use of Unusually High-Dose Oxazepam by Antti Mustonen, Juhani Leijala, Johanna Aronranta, Antero Lassila, Mauri Aalto, Janne Koskimäki

“…BZD withdrawal can cause complications including seizures, suicidal behavior, anxiety, and depression. …”
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Updates in Refractory Status Epilepticus by Rohit Marawar, Maysaa Basha, Advait Mahulikar, Aaron Desai, Kushak Suchdev, Aashit Shah

“…Refractory status epilepticus is defined as persistent seizures despite appropriate use of two intravenous medications, one of which is a benzodiazepine. …”
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A Case of Cerebral Vasculitis Associated with Ulcerative Colitis by Naveen Raj, Matthew Arkebauer, Barry Waters, Brucha Dickinson

“…These manifestations include arterial and venous thrombosis, leukoencephalitis, seizures, and vasculitis. We present a case of a 61-year-old female with a two-year history of well-controlled ulcerative colitis, who developed altered mental status and weakness. …”
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Real estate dispossession, income and immigration in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) by Juan Manuel Parreño Castellano, Josefina Domínguez-Mujica, Claudio Moreno-Medina

“…In order to achieve this objective, the records of the Common Service of Notifications and Seizures have been used together with data of the Inland Revenue Ministry and Municipal Register, combining statistical and cartographical analysis with the purpose of finding associations and predictive factors. …”
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Management of Neonatal Diabetes due to a KCNJ11 Mutation with Automated Insulin Delivery System and Remote Patient Monitoring by Ming Yeh Lee, Anna L. Gloyn, David M. Maahs, Priya Prahalad

“…We present a case of NDM in a proband initially presenting with focal seizures and diabetic ketoacidosis due to a pathologic mutation in the beta cell potassium ATP channel gene KCNJ11 c.679G > A (p.E227K). …”
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Salmonella enterica Serotype Arizonae Meningitis in a Neonate by Wubishet Lakew, Abayneh Girma, Elizabeth Triche

“…Despite prompt treatment with ampicillin, gentamicin, and ceftriaxone, she developed communicating hydrocephalus, frequent seizures, and coma that progressed to death after 2 weeks of hospitalization. …”
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