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Epileptic spasms is an uncommon-to-rare epileptic disorder in infants, children and adults. One of the other names of the disorder, West syndrome, is in memory of the English physician, William James West (1793–1848), who first described it in an article published in The Lancet in 1841. [ 2] The original case actually described his own son ...
Ulnar neuropathy at the elbow. Idiopathic ulnar neuropathy at the elbow is a condition where pressure on the ulnar nerve as it passes through the cubital tunnel causes ulnar neuropathy. The symptoms of neuropathy are paresthesia (tingling) and numbness (loss of sensibility) primarily affecting the little finger and ring finger of the hand.
Specialty. Neurology. Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy ( CIDP) is an acquired autoimmune disease of the peripheral nervous system characterized by progressive weakness and impaired sensory function in the legs and arms. [ 1] The disorder is sometimes called chronic relapsing polyneuropathy ( CRP) or chronic inflammatory ...
Status epilepticus ( SE ), or status seizure, is a medical condition consisting of a single seizure lasting more than 5 minutes, or 2 or more seizures within a 5-minute period without the person returning to normal between them. [ 3][ 1] Previous definitions used a 30-minute time limit. [ 2] The seizures can be of the tonic–clonic type, with ...
Specialty. Neurology. A generalized tonic–clonic seizure, commonly known as a grand mal seizure or GTCS, [ 1] is a type of generalized seizure that produces bilateral, convulsive tonic and clonic muscle contractions. Tonic–clonic seizures are the seizure type most commonly associated with epilepsy and seizures in general and the most common ...
E831.9 Accident to watercraft causing other injury to unspecified person; E832 Other accidental submersion or drowning in water transport accident; E833 Fall on stairs or ladders in water transport; E834 Other fall from one level to another in water transport; E835 Other and unspecified fall in water transport; E836 Machinery accident in water ...
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. [ 1] Work on ICD-10 began in 1983, [ 2 ...
Neurology. Complex partial status epilepticus ( CPSE) is one of the non-convulsive forms of status epilepticus, a rare form of epilepsy defined by its recurrent nature. CPSE is characterized by seizures involving long-lasting stupor, staring and unresponsiveness. [1] Sometimes this is accompanied by motor automatisms, such as eye twitching.