muscle cramp/癲癇性発作

Progressive heart valve thickening and shrinkage, and progressive muscle cramps have not been reported as manifestations of glycogenosis type VII (Tarui's disease). In a 72-year-old female, Tarui's disease was diagnosed in 1997, initially manifesting as simple partial seizures since 1977, anginal

On the evening of December 16, 1997, about 700 children across Japan were hospitalized because of convulsive seizures or vomiting experienced while watching a popular animated TV program that included blue and red stimuli that alternated at 12 flashes per second. In one case, an 11-year-old girl

We report about a case in which the induction of NLA produced an epileptic seizure. The seizure was checked by relaxation, intubation and controlled ventilation. During the following anaesthesia the EEG-monitoring did not show any increased disposition to cramps. The operation was finished without

We describe a pedigree in which 3 members in the same generation are affected by Rolandic epilepsy (RE), paroxysmal exercise-induced dystonia (PED), and writer's cramp (WC). Both the seizures and paroxysmal dystonia had a strong age-related expression that peaked during childhood, whereas the WC,

Background: Muscle cramps are suddenly occurring involuntary, mostly painful contractions of a single muscle, rarely of a muscle group. They can be idiopathic or occur in various neuromuscular diseases and can sometimes substantially

We report here a boy suffering from muscle cramps in the right upper extremity. At 32 days of age, he developed purulent meningitis followed by paresis of the right upper extremity. From infancy he had intermittent episodes myoclonus-like involving the right hand. Since he also had true epileptic

Exercised-associated muscle cramp (EAMC) is a common occurrence in sports medicine. We highlight a 17-year-old male high-school football player with a history of cystic fibrosis and hyponatremic seizure, who presented for recurrent EAMC. After establishing an appropriate electrolyte replacement and

Muscle phosphofructokinase deficiency is known to cause childhood-onset exercise intolerance, muscle cramps, and myoglobinuria. Rarely, phosphofructokinase deficiency manifests in infancy as congenital myopathy and arthrogryposis with fatal outcome. Here, the authors report the case of a 2-year-old

OBJECTIVE To report the case of a patient with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) who developed vincristine (VCR)-induced seizure after R-CHOP chemotherapy. METHODS A 22-year-old boy with DLBCL developed generalized tonic clonic seizures following R-CHOP chemotherapy. After receiving the third

Hereditary angiopathy with nephropathy, aneurysms and muscle cramps (HANAC) syndrome is an autosomal dominant genetic disease caused by COL4A1 gene mutation, with major clinical manifestations of white matter lesion, aneurysm, retinal artery tortuosity, polycystic kidney, microscopic hematuria and

Hypoparathyroidism commonly presents with paresthesias, fatigue, anxiety, muscle cramps and infrequently with seizures due to hypocalcaemia. Here, we present a case of 27-year-old adult female presenting with new onset convulsions who was subsequently diagnosed to have primary (congenital)

In freely moving cats the behavioral and EEG-shifts, accompanied by myoclonic jerks with slow negative waves and spike-wave complexes in the cortexand caudate nucleus, were recorded following a single intramuscular injection of high penicillin doses. The stimulants of catecholaminergic transmission

Tetany a syndrome of sharp flexion of the wrist and ankle joints (carpopedal spasm), muscle twitching, cramps and convulsions, sometimes with an attack of stridor, is due to hyperexcitability of nerves and muscles caused by decreased extracellular ionized calcium. Hyperventilation secondary to