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Therapeutic plasma exchange for malignant refractory status epilepticus: a case report
- Source :
- Pediatric neurology. 50(4)
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Background Refractory status epilepticus is a prolongation of status epilepticus despite anticonvulsant therapy with two or three medications in proper doses; it is defined as malignant status epilepticus if it takes weeks or months. Intravenous immunoglobulin, high-dose steroids, magnesium infusion, pyridoxine, hypothermia, ketogenic diet, electroconvulsive therapy, and surgical therapy are the other treatment options for status epilepticus. Patient Our 5-year-old male patient was hospitalized at our pediatric intensive care unit because of status epilepticus secondary to meningoencephalitis. No response could be obtained with many medical and nonmedical therapies in our patient, who developed malignant status epilepticus with unknown etiology. Therapeutic plasma exchange was applied as convulsions continued. Result Ours is the first child for whom therapeutic plasma exchange was successfully applied because of malignant refractory status epilepticus secondary to meningoencephalitis. Conclusion Therapeutic plasma exchange may be a treatment option for children with refractory status epilepticus following presumed meningoencephalitis.
- Subjects :
- Male
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
animal diseases
medicine.medical_treatment
Status epilepticus
Diagnosis, Differential
Electroconvulsive therapy
Status Epilepticus
Developmental Neuroscience
Refractory
Meningoencephalitis
Convulsion
medicine
Humans
heterocyclic compounds
Pediatric intensive care unit
Plasma Exchange
business.industry
Brain
A Case Report-, PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY, cilt.50, ss.407-410, 2014 [GEDIK A. H. , DEMIRKOL D., TATLI B., BAYRAKTAR S., Alkan A., KARABOCUOGLU M., YUKSEL A., -Therapeutic Plasma Exchange for Malignant Refractory Status Epilepticus]
medicine.disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
nervous system diseases
nervous system
Neurology
Anesthesia
Child, Preschool
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Etiology
Neurology (clinical)
medicine.symptom
business
Ketogenic diet
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18735150
- Volume :
- 50
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Pediatric neurology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b9b0af888bdd6eb140cd49a73a373913