1043-3155 Pediatr Neurol Briefs pedneurbriefs Pediatr Neurol Briefs Pediatric Neurology Briefs Pediatr Neurol Briefs 2166-6482 1043-3155 2166-3155 Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers Chicago, IL, USA PNB-9-59 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-9-8-4 Seizure Disorders Neurology Pediatrics Nervous System Diseases Child Development Brain Diseases Neurosurgery Child Infant Autonomic Epilepsy Reviewed http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0173-7931 Millichap J. Gordon MD 1 2 * Division of Neurology, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL Correspondence: Dr. J. Gordon Millichap, E-mail: jgmillichap@northwestern.edu 08 1995 01 06 2016 9 8 59 59 Copyright: © 1995 The Author(s) 1995 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Autonomic epilepsy

In addition to gastointestinal manifestations of epilepsy, a review of autonomic epilepsies from the Deaconess and Beth Israel Hospitals and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, included cardiovascular manifestations, sudden cardiac death, neurogenic pulmonary edema and other respiratory manifestations, diencephalic epilepsy, cutaneous manifestations, and urogenital manifestations.

 Autonomic Epilepsies Diencephalic Epilepsy Visceral Sensations

In addition to gastointestinal manifestations of epilepsy, a review of autonomic epilepsies from the Deaconess and Beth Israel Hospitals and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, included cardiovascular manifestations, sudden cardiac death, neurogenic pulmonary edema and other respiratory manifestations, diencephalic epilepsy, cutaneous manifestations, and urogenital manifestations. Gastrointestinal symptoms of epilepsy present as auras in adult patients with complex partial seizures, but ictal autonomic symptoms may be limited to visceral sensations, called abdominal epilepsy, especially in children. EEG abnormalities associated with ictal vomiting usually lateralize to the right or nondominant temporal lobe. [1]

COMMENT. “Ictus emeticus and the nondominant temporal lobe” is discussed in Ped Neur Briefs June 1995;9:55. Some anticonvulsants have autonomic side-effects. [2]

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