PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Emmanuel Roze
AU  - Paul Oubary
AU  - François Chédru
TI  - Status-like recurrent pilomotor seizures: case report and review of the literature
AID  - 10.1136/jnnp.68.5.647
DP  - 2000 May 01
TA  - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
PG  - 647--649
VI  - 68
IP  - 5
4099  - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/68/5/647.short
4100  - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/68/5/647.full
SO  - J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry2000 May 01; 68
AB  - A diabetic 66 year old man who presented with pilomotor seizures in his right hemibody is described. The seizures recurred with an increasing frequency, leading to a status-like condition associated with Korsakoff's syndrome. An EEG was performed and several electroclinical seizures were recorded. Brain MRI was negative. The patient, who was treated with carbamazepine, became seizure free after 1 week. Memory and behaviour gradually returned to normal within 3 weeks. There was no further neurological episode during an 8 year follow up. Hyperosmolar, non-ketotic hyperglycaemia was considered to be the cause of the seizures. The pathophysiology of pilomotor seizures is discussed and the literature on the subject reviewed.