Acute Confusional State with Status Petit Mal as a Withdrawal Syndrome — and Five Year Follow-up
- 1 March 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 33 (2) , 157-159
- https://doi.org/10.1177/070674378803300216
Abstract
A 55 year old man developed an acute confusional state with grossly impaired short-term memory accompanied by a Status Petit Mai epilepsy pattern on EEG, one to two weeks after abruptly discontinuing a large amount of oxazepam and a smaller amount of alcohol. Both his mental status and EEG pattern normalized markedly after intravenous diazepam. On 5 year follow-up the patient was seizure-free and medication-free without any significant residual cognitive deficit.Keywords
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