Neurology: Epilepsy KT

Question 1

Answer 1

focal impaired awareness seizure

Question 2

Answer 2

Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures

Question 3

What is the first-line treatment for tonic or atonic seizures (male patient)?

Answer 3

Sodium valproate

Question 4

Answer 4

benzodiazepines

Question 5

Answer 5

Most commonly first-line medication for focal seizures - lamotrigine or levetiracetam

Question 6

Answer 6

Ethosuximide

Question 7

Answer 7

tonic-clonic generalised seizure

Question 8

Answer 8

focal impaired awareness seizure

Question 9

Answer 9

Increased appetite and weight gain, alopecia, P450 enzyme inhibitor

Question 10

P450 enzyme inducer, dizziness and ataxia, drowsiness, agranulocytosis, SIADH

Is most associated with which drug? [1]

Answer 10

carbamazepine

Question 11

Answer 11

Benign rolandic epilepsy - a child has partial seizures that occur at night

Question 13

Answer 13

infantile spasms

Question 14

Answer 14

febrile convulsion

Question 15

Answer 15

Carbamazepine - P450 enzyme inducer, dizziness and ataxia, drowsiness, agranulocytosis, SIADH

Question 16

Answer 16

P450 enzyme inducer, dizziness and ataxia, drowsiness, gingival hyperplasia, coarsening of facial features

Question 17

Answer 17

Lamotrigine - Stevens-Johnson syndrome

Question 18

Answer 18

A young man with a history of epilepsy and learning difficulties is noted to areas of depigmented skin on his torso. He also has roughened patches of skin over the lumbar spine - tuberous sclerosis