Recurrent catamenial status epilepticus: Is it rare or an under recognized phenomenon in women with epilepsy?

•Recurrent catamenial status epilepticus may occur in generalized and focal epilepsy.•Documenting the menstrual cycles and perimenstrual video-EEG help the diagnosis.•Hormonal treatment including menstrual suppressive therapies may be used.

Referral practice, reporting standards, and the impact of dopamine transporter scans done in a tertiary hospital.

Aims: We studied the referral practice, reporting standards, and the impact of 123 ioflupane single photon emission computed tomogram dopamine transporters (DAT-SPECT) scans conducted for the diagnosis and clinical management of patients.

Settings And Designs: The present study was a retrospective, non-interventional study.

Materials And Methods: We assessed the DAT scan referral and the official reports available from the Nuclear Medicine Department of the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital over 1 year (2013).

Diverse phenotype of hypokalaemic periodic paralysis within a family.

Hypokalaemic periodic paralysis typically presents with intermittent mild-to-moderate weakness lasting hours to days. We report a case with an uncommon phenotype of late-onset myopathy without episodic paralytic attacks. Initial work-up including muscle biopsy was inconclusive.