CYCLIC FEVER, ABDOMINAL PAIN AND GRAND MAL SEIZURES: CASE REPORT

1 April 1958

journal article
research article
Published by American College of Physicians in Annals of Internal Medicine

Vol. 48 (4) , 859-864
https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-48-4-859

Abstract

A 32-year-old male suffered for many years with 3 periodic, paroxysmal disorders: bouts of cyclic chills and fever, episodes of acute abdominal pain, and grand mal seizures. The abdominal attacks and grand mal seizures were partially controlled by anticonvulsant medication. The chill and fever patterns were altered by changes in sleep pattern and by intramuscular barbiturate. Although no specific etiology has been identified the disorders are thought to have a neurogenic origin.

Keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN
TONIC - CLONIC SEIZURES
PEL-EBSTEIN FEVER

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

PAROXYSMAL ABDOMINAL PAIN
JAMA, 1951
INTERMITTENT FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN
Archives of internal medicine (1960), 1942