A 47-Year-Old Man Presenting With Seizures and Prior Stroke

Kiara Camacho-Caballero; Marco Malaga; Isabella Peixoto de Barcelos; Anibal F Prentice; Aaron L Berkowitz

doi:10.1177/19418744221122877

A 47-Year-Old Man Presenting With Seizures and Prior Stroke

Neurohospitalist. 2023 Jan;13(1):74-77. doi: 10.1177/19418744221122877. Epub 2022 Oct 10.

Authors

Kiara Camacho-Caballero^{1

2}, Marco Malaga^{2

3}, Isabella Peixoto de Barcelos⁴, Anibal F Prentice⁵, Aaron L Berkowitz⁶

Affiliations

¹ Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, CHANGE Research Working Group Lima, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Perú.
² Grupo Estudiantil de Investigación en Neurociencias, SOCIEM-USMP, Lima, Perú.
³ Facultad de Medicina Humana, Universidad de San Martín de Porres, Lima, Perú.
⁴ Center for Applied Genomics, Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America.
⁵ Clínica Angloamericana, Lima, Perú.
⁶ Kaiser Permanente Bernard J Tyson School of Medicine, Pasadena, CA.

Abstract

A 47-year-old man presented to his local hospital in Peru after a generalized tonic-clonic seizure. His family reported a history of prior stroke of unclear etiology. This case report discusses the approach to a first seizure (including in tropical regions like Peru), the relationship between stroke and seizures, the approach to stroke in the young, and how to diagnose rare diseases in resource-limited settings.

Keywords: MELAS; case report; mitochondrial disease; seizures; stroke.