CONVULSIVE SEIZURES COMPLICATING CORTISONE AND ACTH THERAPY: CLINICAL AND ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS

1 September 1954

journal article
research article
Published by The Endocrine Society in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

Vol. 14 (9) , 1039-1045
https://doi.org/10.1210/jcem-14-9-1039

Abstract

Convulsive seizures were observed in 4 of 43 patients receiving cortisone or/and ACTH therapy. None of these 4 patients showed clinical evidence of convulsive manifestations prior to onset of hormone treatment.

Keywords

ACTH/INJURIOUS EFFECTS
CONVULSIONS/ETIOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS
CORTISONE/INJURIOUS EFFECTS
ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY

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Observations on the Antagonistic Effects of Posterior Pituitary and Cortico-Adrenal Hormones in, the Epileptic Subject1
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 1942