A Case of Ictal Burst-suppression

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Journal Epilepsy Behav Case Rep

Specialty Psychology

Date 2019 Feb 16

PMID 30766794

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Authors

Pegah Afra

Verena Clarissa Samara

Lilly Fagatele

Bola Adamolekun

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Abstract

"Burst-suppression" pattern consists of complete attenuation of background between bursts of mixed frequencies, variable morphology and waveforms. It is a subgroup of periodic patterns seen in severe cerebral damage, anesthesia or prematurity. Here, we present a 46-year-old woman with post-anoxic encephalopathy on cooling protocol with two electrographically similar patterns of burst-suppression (one with a clinical ictal correlate of isolated eye movements), as well as three electroclinical seizures. The literature on rare clinical phenomenon of isolated eye movements associated with burst-suppression is reviewed, with the conclusion that the presented case suggests an ictal origin.

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