Biomedical subjects

P Lerman

Publications and source records attributed to P Lerman.

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Meningioma associated with parathyroid adenoma.

A woman hospitalized because of attempted suicide with diazepam tablets was found to have hypercalcemia and other signs of hyperparathyroidism. Electroencephalogram indicated a brain lesion which was confirmed by a brain scan and angiogram. The hypercalcemia persisted after removal of the meningioma and serum levels of calcium returned to normal only after a parathyroid adenoma was removed during an additional intervention. This association of meningioma with hyperparathyroidism is unique in the literature. The difficulties of diagnosis resulting from the neuropsychiatric symptoms common to the two disorders are discussed.

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Seizures induced or aggravated by anticonvulsants.

Six cases of epileptic children are reported, in whom anticonvulsant therapy, aggravated rather than controlled the seizures or induced minor seizures. This was caused by excessive polytherapy in one case and by the use of the inappropriate drug (for that type of epilepsy) in four other cases. In the sixth case, the appropriate anticonvulsant was used, but it induced multiple astatic-myoclonic seizures. This phenomenon of drug-induced seizures is apt to occur particularly in certain types of childhood epilepsy that are refractory to therapy and are accompanied by slow spike-wave discharges in the EEG, such as the Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.

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