Startle epilepsy is a rare neurologic disease characterized by frequent and spontaneous epileptic seizures (frequently with symmetrical or asymmetrical tonic features) triggered by a normal startle in response to a sudden and unexpected somatosensory (most frequently auditory) stimulus. Falls are common and can be traumatic. In most cases, the disease is associated with spastic hemi-, di-, or tetraplegia and intellectual disability.
[The association between post anoxic encephalopathy and startle epilepsy].
Pardal-aern ndez JM, Iniesta-Lopez I, Lopez-Agreda JM. Rev Neurol. 2002;34(7):648-51.
We present the case of a child with a startle epilepsy clinically presented as a form of subintrant status epilepticus under the context of a postanoxic encephalopathy secondary to drowsiness.
