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Symptomatic Epilepsy in Inflammatory Demyelinating Diseases

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Published data and our own observations are used to present the features of symptomatic epilepsy in multiple sclerosis, post-infectious acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, isolated cerebral angiitis, and Rasmussen’s encephalitis. Examples of the clinical analysis of the diagnostically most complex cases of inflammatory and demyelinating diseases with epilepsy syndrome are presented. The MRI features of structural brain injuries are discussed. The role of additional laboratory investigations, including cerebrospinal fluid analysis, in the diagnosis of this pathology, is discussed.

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  1. St. Petersburg Academician I. P. Pavlov State Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russia

    N. A. Totolyan, S. V. Lapin, A. Yu. Kodzaeva, E. I. Kairbekova & A. A. Skoromets

  2. Research Institute of Experimental Medicine, North-West Branch, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

    E. V. Borisova & I. V. Milyukhina

  3. Tomografiya Scientific Methodological Center, Russian-Finnish “Skandinaviya” Clinic, St. Petersburg, Russia

    A. A. Totolyan

  4. Institute of the Human Brain, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

    L. N. Prakhova

  5. Leningrad Regional Hospital, St. Petersburg, Russia

    E. P. Evdoshenko

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Translated from Zhurnal Nevrologii i Psikhiatrii imeni S. S. Korsakova, Vol. 111, No. 2, Multiple Sclerosis, Iss. II, pp. 38–51, February, 2011.

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Totolyan, N.A., Borisova, E.V., Totolyan, A.A. et al. Symptomatic Epilepsy in Inflammatory Demyelinating Diseases. Neurosci Behav Physi 42, 223–235 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-012-9557-3

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