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https://ahro.austin.org.au/austinjspui/handle/1/16365| Title: | Temporal lobe epilepsy following maintenance electroconvulsive therapy-electrical kindling in the human brain? | Austin Authors: | Bryson, Alexander ;Gardner, Helen;Wilson, Ian;Rolfe, Tim ;Archer, John S | Affiliation: | Department of Neurology, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia Department of Neurology, Cairns Hospital, Cairns, Queensland, Australia Department of Psychiatry, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia Department of Medicine, Austin Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Issue Date: | Nov-2016 | Date: | 2016-09-26 | Publication information: | Epilepsia 2016; 57(11): e216-e220 | Abstract: | Maintenance electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is sometimes prescribed for refractory psychiatric conditions. We describe five patients who received maintenance ECT and developed florid temporal epileptiform abnormalities on electroencephalography (EEG) despite no history of epilepsy and normal neuroimaging. All patients had received regular ECT for at least 8 months. Three patients had clinical events consistent with epileptic seizures, and video-EEG monitoring captured electrographic seizures in two patients. After cessation of ECT the EEGs normalized in all patients, and no further clinical seizures occurred. Maintenance ECT may predispose to epilepsy with a seizure focus in the temporal lobe. | URI: | https://ahro.austin.org.au/austinjspui/handle/1/16365 | DOI: | 10.1111/epi.13565 | Journal: | Epilepsia | PubMed URL: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27666327 | Type: | Journal Article | Subjects: | Electroconvulsive therapy Epilepsy Kindling |
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