Multimodal Management of Febrile Infection-Related Epilepsy Syndrome in a 17-Year-Old Male.
In: Cureus, Jg. 15 (2023-08-30), Heft 8, S. e44412
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New-onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE) is a clinical presentation, not a specific diagnosis, in which healthy people are suddenly struck by prolonged seizures that do not respond to at least two anti-seizure drugs and do not have a clear structural, toxic, or metabolic cause.Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES) is considered a sub-category of NORSE. Our patient is a 17-year-old male admitted to the pediatric ward after a self-limited convulsive episode at home, noted to occur following five days of upper respiratory infection symptoms accompanied by fever. After multiple generalized tonic-clonic seizures necessitating treatment, he went into status epilepticus despite multiple antiepileptic drugs. The possibility of FIRES had been considered from the onset of refractory status epilepticus; as a result, an intensive multimodal treatment regimen was proactively implemented with some clinical improvement.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright © 2023, Bellingham et al.)
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Multimodal Management of Febrile Infection-Related Epilepsy Syndrome in a 17-Year-Old Male.
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| Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Bellingham, EE ; Hammond, CG ; Sahhar, HS ; Rishmawi, SE |
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| Zeitschrift: | Cureus, Jg. 15 (2023-08-30), Heft 8, S. e44412 |
| Veröffentlichung: | Palo Alto, CA : Cureus, Inc., 2023 |
| Medientyp: | report |
| ISSN: | 2168-8184 (print) |
| DOI: | 10.7759/cureus.44412 |
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