Reply to P. Gelisse, P. Genton, A. Crespela ‘Failure to recognize muscular artifacts on the EEG may cause a wrong diagnosis of myoclonic status epilepticus’. Epilepsy Behav Rep. 5 April 2020, 100362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebr.2020.100362
Articles > Letter · 2020
Authors: Leyla Baysal-Kirac, İbrahim AYDOĞDU
Epilepsy & Behavior Reports, International, Scopus, 2020, vol 14, pp 100377-100377
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebr.2020.100377
Summary
Thank you for the opportunity to respond the letter from Dr. Gelisse et al. to discuss the topic about EEG artifacts and to explain the EEG findings in our article published in Epilepsy & Behavior Reports [1,2].We read the letter with great interest and we would like to thank to authors for their time to discuss this challenging topic.In our case series we described the clinical and video-EEG features of 6 adult patients with myoclonic status epilepticus (MSE) who did not have a prior diagnosis of epilepsy [2].In four of the patients (patients 3-6) MSE was precipitated by pregabalin and beta-lactam group antibiotics.Two of them (patients 3 and 6) had underlying chronic renal disease.In two of the patients (patients 1-2) seizure provoking factors were not clear, however in patient 1 with dementia we supposed underlying neurodegenerative disease or quetiapine might have generated seizures as previously reported [2][3][4].In all except one patient, Epilepsy & Behavior Reports 14 (2020) 100377