![]() The patients’ past medical and surgical history includes an appendectomy done in 2011. The entire episode lasts for around 60 seconds. The seizure is also associated with dripping saliva and foaming from the mouth. According to the patient’s wife, he would lose consciousness after severe cough followed by development of a tonic-clonic jerk of the right arm. He also gives history of a dry cough for the first 15 days followed by a productive cough with white sputum associated with fever and dyspnea for the next 5 days. Ī 45-year-old Comoros man presents to the hospital with history of attacks of seizure 2 to 3 times a day since the past 20 days. Epilepsy is a disease characterized by an enduring predisposition to generate epileptic seizures and by the neurobiological, cognitive, psychological, and social consequences of this condition. The definition of Epilepsy and Epileptic seizures, as per the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) in 2005, states that an epileptic seizure is a transient occurrence of signs and/or symptoms due to abnormal excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. Any stereotyped repeated clinical phenomenon should consider being epileptic in its origin.Įpilepsy, cough, aura, chronic bronchitis Cough as an aura is not a common presentation. The study hopes to generate an interest for further studies into the topic and focuses on abnormal unusual presentations of auras. The case study is aimed at providing a more thorough analysis of a case of Epilepsy presented with an unusual aura of cough. ![]() Received 10 February 2015 accepted 24 February 2015 published 28 February 2015 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). 1Department of Neurology, GMC Hospital, Ajman, UAEĢDepartment of Pulmonology, GMC Hospital, Ajman, UAEĮmail: © 2015 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc.
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