Seizures manifesting as an urge to defecate, with an ictal discharge in the right hemisphere

Mohamad Z. Koubeissi; Nathan E. Crone; Ronald P. Lesser

doi:10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.17505.x

Seizures manifesting as an urge to defecate, with an ictal discharge in the right hemisphere

Mohamad Z. Koubeissi, Nathan E. Crone, Ronald P. Lesser

School of Medicine

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Abstract

We report a 47-year-old right-handed woman with simple partial seizures manifesting in part as an urge to defecate shortly after a visual distortion. On at least one occasion, this was followed by head deviation to the left and a secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizure. The ictal electroencephalogram lateralized to the right hemisphere, suggesting that the ictal urge to defecate may lateralize to this side.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1330-1332
Number of pages	3
Journal	Epilepsia
Volume	46
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.17505.x
State	Published - Aug 2005

Keywords

Defecation
EEG
Simple partial seizures

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Neurology
Clinical Neurology

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Seizures manifesting as an urge to defecate, with an ictal discharge in the right hemisphere

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