• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제51권12호
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• pp.1346-1349
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• 2008

배뇨 유발 반사발작은 매우 드물며, 문헌상에서 단지 8례가 보고되었으며, 발작기 뇌파로 진단한 예는 국내에서 보고된 바 없다. 7세 남아가 이차전신화 부분발작을 주소로 내원하였다. 발작은 단지 배뇨 수초 후에 시작되었으며 손의 자동증과 함께 비틀거리며 쓰러지면서 의식소실과 함께 이차적으로 전신 강직 발작을 하였다. 발작기 뇌파에서 왼측 전두부와 측두부에서 다극서파가 보이다가 오른쪽 전두부와 측두부로 퍼져나가는 소견을 보여 배뇨 유발성 이차 전신화 부분발작으로 진단되어 보고하는 바이다.

• Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.27-30
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• 2000

Reflex epilepsies are distinct but not clearly understood clinical entity. Various cerebral activities induced by simple stimulation including visual, auditory, somatosensory stimulation, as well as diverse functional tasks such as reading, calculation, complex thinking are believed to be seizure-inducing factors. We experienced two patients whose seizures were readily precipitated by complex, strenuous thinking. Both patients was teen-aged boy at the onset of seizure(13, and 15 years of age each) with normal physical and mental growth. Although first seizure was precipitated by watching TV and playing puzzles in each patient, initial diagnosis was idiopathic generalized epilepsy, possibly juvenile myoclonic epilepsy( JME). For the first few years, seizures were infrequent but mostly precipitated by the tasks needs concentration such as playing computer games, decision-making, mathematics, reading, or during the examination. EEG revealed various thinking process including reading hard books, drawing complex figure, complex calculation induced epileptic discharges even if it usually needs certain period of concentration. Phenytoin, valproic acid, clonazepam, vigabatrin, and lamotrigine sometimes abated their seizures but none of these made them seizure-free. Complex reflex epilepsy induced by thinking was proposed to be a separate type of epilepsy or a variant of JME. Age, sex, stereotypic seizure-inducing factors, clinical course, and refractory epilepsies in these patients highly suggested this type of epilepsy as a variant of JME but its refractoriness and unique provocation still needs more speculation.