Volume 24, Issue 103, May - June, 2020

Abdominal epilepsy in adult: A case report with a review of literature

Mostafa Meshref¹, Mohammed Saqer Alshammari², Hussain Gadelkarim Ahmed^2,3,4♦

¹Neurology registrar at King Khaled hospital Hail, Saudi Arabia
²College of Medicine, University of Hail, Saudi Arabia
³Molecular Diagnostics and Personalized Therapeutics Unit, University of Ha’il, KSA
⁴Department of Histopathology and Cytology, CMLS, University of Khartoum, Sudan

^♦Corresponding author
Prof. Hussain Gadelkarim Ahmed, College of Medicine, University of Hail 2440, Saudi Arabia. Email: hussaingad5@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Epilepsy is one of the most popular neurological disorders. Epileptic patients can manifest with various symptoms and need to be evaluated and investigated well. One of these symptoms is abdominal pain which may be due to disease aura or due to focal epileptic activity.Focal epilepsy with abdominal pain is a unusual presentation of partial epilepsy. Thus, abdominal epilepsy is a rare cause of paroxysmal abdominal pain which is common in childhood, but seldom in the adolescent. Adult patients presenting with gastrointestinal disorders associated with abnormal EEG should be investigated for possible EA.

Keywords: epilepsy, focal epilepsy, abdominal pain

Medical Science, 2020, 24(103), 1136-1141

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