Abdominal epilepsy

Abdominal epilepsy is a rare gastrointestinal disorder caused by epileptiform seizure activity. While a causal relationship between seizure activity and the gastrointestinal symptoms was not yet proven they can not be explained by other pathophysiological mechanisms and show an improvement after anticonvulsant treatment. Abdominal epilepsy can be continually occurring abdominal pain a rare cause. It was described as a type of epilepsy of the temporal lobe. Response to anticonvulsants may support the diagnosis.

Incidence

While reliable estimates of the incidence of missing, abdominal epilepsy is classified as very rare. Most of the published medical literature that deals with abdominal epilepsy, is in the form of individual case reports. A review article published in 2005 found a total of 36 cases described in the medical literature.

History

It is usually attributed to Trousseau, have this condition described in 1868 as the first in a boy with spasmodic gastrointestinal symptoms, culminating in tonic- clonic epileptic seizures. The first report of abdominal epilepsy supported by EEG recordings in 1944 in an article by MT Moore released, followed by further case reports from the same group.