Passive toothbrushing-induced seizures: Report of a severely disabled girl
| Autor: | Ryuichi Nishii, Ikuko Hiejima, Tatsuya Higashi, Tatsuya Fujii, Anri Hayashi, Fumihito Nozaki, Keiko Saito, Tomoko Miyajima, Tomohiro Kumada |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Toothbrushing
medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Electroencephalography Audiology Epilepsy Reflex Epilepsy Developmental Neuroscience Frontal regions Interictal eeg medicine Humans Girl Child media_common Cerebral Cortex medicine.diagnostic_test General Medicine medicine.disease Tonic seizures Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Reflex Female Neurology (clinical) Hypotonic cerebral palsy Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Brain and Development. 35:91-94 |
| ISSN: | 0387-7604 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.braindev.2012.03.013 |
| Popis: | Toothbrushing-induced seizures are rare reflex seizures triggered by the brushing of one's own teeth. We encountered an 11-year-old girl with severe mental retardation, hypotonic cerebral palsy and epilepsy who presented with toothbrushing-induced seizures. She had had spontaneous brief tonic seizures several times a day since the age of 1 year and 2 months and started presenting with the same type of seizures induced by toothbrushing from the age of 8 years. As she could not brush her teeth by herself due to her disabilities, her mother brushed her teeth daily for her. The interictal EEG showed spike-and-wave complexes in the frontal regions bilaterally. The [Tc-99m]HMPAO-SPECT at the time of the seizure induced by toothbrushing suggested that the seizures originated from the left perisylvian cortex. This is the first report of toothbrushing-induced seizures triggered by the brushing of the patient's teeth by another person ('passive toothbrushing'). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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