New-Onset Refractory Status Epilepticus Due to Autoimmune Encephalitis After Vaccination Against SARS-Cov-2: First Case Report
Case Presentation A 35-year-old woman who developed fever, skin rash, and headache 2 days after the second SARS-cov-2 vaccination with BNT162b2 (Pfizer/Biontech). Eight days later, she developed behavioural changes and severe recurrent seizures that led to sedation and intubation. Medical History Physical Examination Laboratory Findings Diagnosis Therapy Treatment Outcomes The patient’s condition rapidly improved beginning […]
Elucidating the Effect of Extreme Delta Brush Pattern in Anti-N-Methyl-D- Aspartate (NMDA) Receptor Encephalitis
Introduction Anti-N-methyl-d-aspartate (Anti-NMDA) encephalitis (ANMDARE), an autoimmune initially manifests as viral prodrome progressing to psychiatric symptoms. These lead to movement disorders and/or seizures ultimately progressing to decreased level of consciousness. The extreme delta brush is a pattern usually observed in frontotemporal regions of premature infants. This pattern normally goes off upon anti-epileptic treatment, but it […]
Dermoid Cyst Concomitant with Focal Cortical Dysplasia
A 17-year-old girl presented with drug-resistant epilepsy since the age of 13. She often experienced impaired awareness seizures which rarely proceeded to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures. EEG had left temporal focal slowing without epileptiform discharges while a week long video-EEG showed no changes but the patient complained of olfactory aura. Her MRI was consisted with dermoid […]