Alcohol and serum creatine kinase levels

✍ Scribed by Russell J. M. Lane; Fredric M. Radoff

• Book ID: 101465953
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 222 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0364-5134
• DOI: 10.1002/ana.410100619

✦ Synopsis

Fischer [3] has speculated that these lesions produce localized disturbances of the blood-brain barrier that allow leakage of contrast materials into the extravascular space, where they may be epileptogenic.

The limitation of observed movements to the extremities and body, lack of change in consciousness or speech, and symmetrical nature of the activity all suggest that the observed movements were spinal seizures. This designation does remain strictly clinical, however, as the episode was too brief for electrophysiological data to be obtained.

The occurrence of spinal seizures in association with intravenous administration of contrast material should prompt a careful search for an underlying cord lesion.