Nonconvulsive status epilepticus can be confused with psychiatric disorders. Inappropriate drug treatment can represent a precipitating factor. We describe two patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy in whom nonconvulsive status epilepticus, aggravated by carbamazepine, was misdiagnosed as psychiatric disorder. A 14-year-old girl experienced a tonic-clonic seizure at age 12 years preceded by monthly episodes of confusion with awkward behavior since age 9 years. She was treated with carbamazepine, and the episodes of confusion became more frequent, leading to a diagnosis of dissociative disorder.

Nonconvulsive status epilepticus precipitated by carbamazepine presenting as dissociative and affective disorders in adolescents / Marini C; Parmeggiani L; Masi G; Guerrini R. - In: JOURNAL OF CHILD NEUROLOGY. - ISSN 0883-0738. - STAMPA. - 20:(2005), pp. 693-696. [10.1177/08830738050200081201]

Nonconvulsive status epilepticus precipitated by carbamazepine presenting as dissociative and affective disorders in adolescents

GUERRINI, RENZO
2005

Abstract

Nonconvulsive status epilepticus can be confused with psychiatric disorders. Inappropriate drug treatment can represent a precipitating factor. We describe two patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy in whom nonconvulsive status epilepticus, aggravated by carbamazepine, was misdiagnosed as psychiatric disorder. A 14-year-old girl experienced a tonic-clonic seizure at age 12 years preceded by monthly episodes of confusion with awkward behavior since age 9 years. She was treated with carbamazepine, and the episodes of confusion became more frequent, leading to a diagnosis of dissociative disorder.
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Marini C; Parmeggiani L; Masi G; Guerrini R
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