Burns from foul play? No – previously unsuspected epilepsy

• Authors: Peter W. Kaplan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Introduction. Injuries such as burns may occur from unwitnessed and unsuspected new onset epilepsy with forensic implications.Case report. A young woman was found with >25% 2nd and 3rd degree body burns after an unwitnessed morning event in a shower.Discussion. The onset of tonic-clonic seizures and limb jerks in adolescence with a typical EEG recording of 3–4/second spike/polyspike-and-waves are diagnostic of Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy (JME). Worldwide there is a significant morbidity and mortality in epilepsy from burns. The treatment of JME and of burns was discussed.

Keywords

EN

JME; tonic-clonic seizure; burns

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Journal of Epileptology
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 105-107

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2013

online

1 - 3 - 2015

received

21 - 11 - 2013

accepted

3 - 12 - 2013

Contributors

author

Peter W. Kaplan

• Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, USA

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/joepi-2015-0009