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Case Reports
. 2012 Aug;33(4):915-8.
doi: 10.1007/s10072-011-0851-6. Epub 2011 Nov 12.

From migraine to epilepsy: a threshold mechanism?

Filippo Dainese  1 , Federico Mainardi, Giorgio Zanchin, Francesco Paladin
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Case Reports

From migraine to epilepsy: a threshold mechanism?

Filippo Dainese et al. Neurol Sci. 2012 Aug.

Abstract

A 67-year-old man complained of a transient blurring of vision in his right visual field lasting 30 min followed by headache. Two weeks later, the visual disturbance changed its pattern; it was described as the occurrence of brown round-shaped images in the right visual field spinning and turning for few seconds. This evolution from visual aura to visual seizures, with video-EEG correlation, supports the hypothesis of modification in threshold of cortical hyperexcitability from migraine to epilepsy.

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