Twenty-seven venous cutdowns to treat pseudostatus epilepticus

Seizure. 1997 Feb;6(1):71-2. doi: 10.1016/s1059-1311(97)80057-x.

Abstract

Pseudoseizures are often misdiagnosed. We report a patient with pseudostatus epilepticus who has had 27 venous cutdowns on different occasions when she was admitted to hospital with repeated seizures.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Conversion Disorder / diagnosis
  • Conversion Disorder / psychology
  • Conversion Disorder / therapy*
  • Critical Care / psychology
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hysteria / diagnosis
  • Hysteria / psychology
  • Hysteria / therapy*
  • Psychophysiologic Disorders / diagnosis
  • Psychophysiologic Disorders / psychology
  • Psychophysiologic Disorders / therapy*
  • Status Epilepticus / diagnosis
  • Status Epilepticus / psychology
  • Status Epilepticus / therapy*
  • Suicide / psychology
  • Venous Cutdown / psychology*