Biomedical subjects

M Crisci

Publications and source records attributed to M Crisci.

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PubMed1995

Status epilepticus in acute ischemic stroke.

Stroke is one of the most frequent causes of acute symptomatic status epilepticus. The aim of this study was to investigate the electroclinical features of status epilepticus in acute ischemic stroke. Nine consecutively admitted patients with status epilepticus during ischemic stroke were examined: five of them had convulsive unilateral or generalized status epilepticus for from 24 hours to 9 days after a large hemispheric infarction, always associated with EEG epileptiform abnormalities; the remaining four had focal motor status epilepticus during the first 24 hours after a small cortical or subcortical infarction, and showed no clear EEG changes. Status epilepticus in acute ischemic stroke may have two distinct electroclinical patterns of different prognostic significance.

Aged↗

PubMed1994

Acute psychosis and epileptic seizures as the presenting symptom of late-onset epilepsy.

We report two patients with no history of psychosis or epilepsy presenting with acute psychosis and epileptic seizures as the initial symptom of late-onset epilepsy. Seizures and psychosis resolved with phenytoin. Case 1 presented a recurrence of both psychosis and seizures following abrupt withdrawal of antiepileptic drugs.

Aged↗

PubMed1993

Testing models for genetic determination in migraine.

We collected two clinically matched samples of patients, one sample affected by migraine with aura the other by migraine without aura, to investigate the genetic determination of these conditions. A maternal and X-linked transmission for both these diseases was considered unlikely after pedigree analysis. Classical segregation analysis indicated a likely autosomal recessive kind of transmission for both. Reduced penetrance and the h2 values, however, imply the presence of additional genetic and/or environmental factors controlling the phenotypic expression of migraine.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1992

Transient abnormalities on magnetic resonance imaging after partial status epilepticus.

We report two patients who developed focal abnormalities on MRI after partial status epilepticus. Maximum radiological modification occurred in the area of maximal epileptic discharge. Subsequent MRI failed to demonstrate persistent abnormalities. These transient abnormalities on MRI could be an expression of cerebral edema caused by focal epileptic status.

Adult↗