A Case of Pure Autonomic Seizure Presenting as Sinus Tachycardia.
- Author:
Young Dae KIM
1
;
Jae Hoon YANG
;
Sang don HAN
;
Hae Won SHIN
;
Soochul PARK
Author Information
1. Department of Neurology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. scpark@yumc.yonsei.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Ictal tachycardia;
Epilepsy;
Temporal lobe
- MeSH:
Adolescent;
Epilepsy;
Heart Rate;
Humans;
Male;
Seizures*;
Sialorrhea;
Tachycardia;
Tachycardia, Sinus*;
Tachycardia, Supraventricular;
Temporal Lobe;
Thorax
- From:Journal of the Korean Neurological Association
2004;22(6):652-656
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Tachycardia rarely consists of an ictal symptomatology associated with autonomic symptoms such as sialorrhea, even if it commonly precedes or combines with a limbic aura of complex partial seizure. A 14-year-old boy with recurrent palpitation, chest discomfort, and sialorrhea suffered from a pure autonomic seizure presenting as sinus tachycardia with a neural origin, which had been misdiagnosed as paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia without improvement by cardiac medication. The right mesial temporal origin was revealed by video CCTV-EEG with the profile of the heart rate during ictus.
