Epilepsy and sleep disorders, headache Flashcards
Weight loss is a side effect of treatment for
Topiramate
Topiramate is not given to and epilepsy patient with
kidney stones
Phenorbarbitone is not given to a patient with
dementia, because ir affects higher nervous activity
Drug of choice for convulsive status epilepticus
benzodiazepine
If benzodiazepine didn’t work we use
phenytoin
If benzodiazepine and pheytoin didn’t work we use
anaesthesia with propofol or pentobarbital
First-line treatment for a patient with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
valproate
Antiepileptic used exclusively for absence
ethosuximide
can riluzole be used for epilepsy?
No
Generalised epileptic seizures are
Absence
Myoclonic + generalised tonic-clonic
what to use to break status epilepticus
Diazepam
Todd’s Paresis
Transient neurological impairment, usually weakness contralateral to the epileptic focus
Absence seizure drugs
ethosuximide (only for that), valproate
Can aggravate withdrawal seizures
Carbamazepine
type of seizure that looks luke sudden, rapid spasms or convulsions of the upper or lower limbs, with not loss of consciousness, can also cause a fall
Myoclonic seizures
What happen with carbamazepine and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
Carbamazepine worsens juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
Drug for focal symptomatic epilepsy
Carbamazepine
Drug for juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
Valproate, Lamotrigine
Drug for petit-nale seizure
ethosuccimide
22 years old. Has generalized seizure after a sleepless night. Recently things have been falling out of her hands in the morning
Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy