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complex
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The clinical presentation of complex partial seizures is diverse and includes psychiatric, motor, and somatic signs and symptoms.
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A brief period of loss of contact as in complex partial seizures . 5.
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The psychiatric symptoms of complex partial seizures are said to be indistinguishable from those of true psychiatric disorders.
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It has been used as a secondary drug in complex partial seizures , with occasional benefit.
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Lindsay etal reported that 36% of children with complex partial seizures had interictal rage attacks.
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About 30% of patients with complex partial seizures have a family history of epilepsy.
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Behaviour in patients with complex partial seizures is usually more repetitive and stereotyped than in psychiatric illness.
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Messner describes abrupt recurrences, rapid shifts of symptoms, and hallucinations in relatively untroubled personalities as supportive of complex partial seizures .
epileptic
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Ten patients had hypoxaemic events induced by epileptic seizures .
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Their adopted daughter, Melinda, died during an epileptic seizure .
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Thus epileptic seizures often began with a sustained tachycardia in spite of apnoeic pauses and severe hypoxaemia.
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There may be a gradual or prolonged build-up of the episode rather than the abrupt onset typical of an epileptic seizure .
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In six epileptic seizures were difficult to control; in four they stopped after treatment with carbamazepine.
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Ahmad once represented a dry cleaning branch manager who had an epileptic seizure on the job.
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It may indeed have been caused by sunstroke or by an epileptic seizure .
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In four of these hypoxaemia induced by epileptic seizure was recorded during subsequent events in hospital.
grand
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These may be simple partial motor seizures , rather than grand mal seizures.
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It is also effective in primary generalized grand mal seizures .
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If only the grand mal seizures are uncontrolled, carbamazepine, phenytoin, or phenobarbital may be added to the valproic acid.
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Phenobarbital is effective in partial seizures , partial seizures secondarily generalized, and primary generalized grand mal seizures.
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Adequate control is very important, because grand mal seizures may harm the fetus or even precipitate fetal death.
partial
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The clinical presentation of complex partial seizures is diverse and includes psychiatric, motor, and somatic signs and symptoms.
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The control of the partial seizures was significantly better with carbamazepine than with phenobarbital, phenytoin, or primidone.
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The psychiatric symptoms of complex partial seizures are said to be indistinguishable from those of true psychiatric disorders.
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These may be simple partial motor seizures , rather than grand mal seizures.
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Lindsay etal reported that 36% of children with complex partial seizures had interictal rage attacks.
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Carbamazepine is the drug of first choice in partial seizures and partial seizures secondarily generalized.
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About 30% of patients with complex partial seizures have a family history of epilepsy.
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land
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Mr Mugabe has denied prior knowledge of the land seizures , although he said the government welcomed and supported the occupations.
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Where Mr Mbeki is not at one with Mr Mugabe is over the economic cost of the land seizures .
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generalize
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Total elimination of seizures is often not a realistic goal in adults with partial or secondarily generalized seizures.
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There are other kinds of generalized seizures that are basically inhibitory, like briefly turning off a switch.
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It is also effective in primary generalized grand mal seizures .
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The characteristics of generalized seizures are listed below and contrasted with events usually occurring in syncope. 1.
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Rarely, focal, or generalized seizures 8.
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This causes a generalized tonic-clonic seizure .
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Phenobarbital is effective in partial seizures , partial seizures secondarily generalized , and primary generalized grand mal seizures.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The raid led to the seizure of 25 kilograms of pure heroin.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Based on efficacy and toxicity data, the recommended drugs in these seizure categories are carbamazepine and phenytoin.
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Carling strained a thigh muscle in Dunedin and Bayfield ended that match on a stretcher with a neck seizure .
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Hypercalcemia, rarely, may also cause seizures, possibly related to small cerebral vessel occlusion.
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The judge ordered seizure of his assets totalling £36,200 or Fraser would serve a further 18 months in jail.
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The offer came on the last day for objections to Mr Mugabe's seizure of 804 white-owned farms.
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Total elimination of seizures is often not a realistic goal in adults with partial or secondarily generalized seizures.