The diagnosis of acute neurological disorders occurring in patients with a history of alcohol abuse may be challenging. An unusual picture of subacute encephalopathy with seizures (SESA syndrome) in chronic alcoholics was initially characterized by Niedermeyer et al. [1] and Freund and Niedermeyer [2] in 1981. SESA syndrome represents a distinct subtype of localization-related non-convulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) in which recurrent complex partial seizures occur in alcoholic adult individuals, with transient neurologic deficits, interictal periodic lateralized discharges (PLDs) on the electroencephalography (EEG), and chronic multifocal vascular cerebral pathology [3].
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