What is it about?
Epilepsia partialis continua means continuing partial motor seizure without consciousness change. But the typical clinical course of sporadic Cretzfeld-Jacob Disease (sCJD) is characterized by rapid mental deterioration. In such a situation, an early diagnosis of sCJD is very hard for the clinical physician.
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Why is it important?
In our case, all clinical work-ups were unremarkable, but there were consistent abnormalities on early and follow-up magnetic resonance diffusion-weighted images, which helped to an early consideration of sCJD.
Perspectives
For a neurologist, to identify the cause of EPC is usually challenging and very difficult.
Poh-Shiow Yeh
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This page is a summary of: Epilepsia Partialis Continua as the First Presenting Symptom in Probable Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease: A Case Report and Literature Review, Case Reports in Neurology, July 2018, Karger Publishers,
DOI: 10.1159/000490909.
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