Myoclonic Seizure
Diagnosis and Treatment of Childhood Myoclonic Seizures
... Diagnosis and Treatment of Childhood Myoclonic Seizures.. Samuel Livingston, M.D.[r] ...
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THE TREATMENT OF MYOCLONIC SEIZURES OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD WITH LA-I
... myoclonic jerks (minor motor seizures) in-.. volving different parts of the body.[r] ...
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Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, a common epilepsy syndrome
... the myoclonic seizures (table ...the seizure might cause the person to fall and become ...tonic-clonic seizure. In fact, a person with myoclonic seizures could easily dismiss them because they ...
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Thyroid profile in children on anticonvulsant monotherapy
... The benzodiazepines are also effective AEDs, not only for generalised, but also for focal seizures and some epilepsy syndromes. Their use may be restricted by acute toxicity, and the development of tolerance or ...
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Case Report of Management Problem of Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
... only in the Siberian Federal Region in Russian Federation, but also in other countries [11] [21]. It is essential that patient’s anamnesis is thorough and detailed. This can be facilitated by active questioning about ...
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Frequency of Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy Clinical Phenotypes in Siberia
... age for JME varies from 7 to 21 years with a peak in the age range 11 - 15 years. In some cases, the disease can begin at an earlier age with absence seizures or generalised seizures, with subsequent gain of ...
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Oxcarbazepine effectiveness as add-on therapy in Bulgarian patients with drug-resistant epilepsy
... Oxcarbazepine (OCBZ) is an antiepileptic drug (AED) with the following mechanisms of action: inhibition of sodium and calcium channels, stabilization of the overexcited neuronal membranes, inhibition of the repetitive ...
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"Electro-clinical syndromes" with onset in paediatric age: the highlights of the clinical-EEG, genetic and therapeutic advances
... Landau Kleffner (LKS) is a rare syndrome of unknown etiology (more common in the children between 5 and 7 years af age) which consists mainly of loss of language skills in children previously normal [110,28]. Language ...
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Predictors of Childhood Intractable Epilepsy- A Retrospective Study in A Tertiary Care Hospital
... Major seizure type was tonic-clonic seizure in ...epilepsy, myoclonic seizure, initial high frequency of seizure, infantile spasm, neonatal seizures and birth asphyxia were ...
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Risk factors for childhood refractory epilepsy in a tertiary care centre, Chennai
... of seizure prior to treatment similar to “Kwong et al “ 42 But not with “Sillanpaa et al” 43 neonatal seizures had a worst outcome as per “ Berg et al” 44,45,46 Myoclonic seizures and status epilepticus ...
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Vagal Nerve Stimulation in Epileptic Encephalopathies
... resume seizure diaries for the 22nd to the 24th months after the start of VNS ...The seizure frequency was taken as the average of the absolute seizure number for each month and compared with ...
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A Study on Acute Symptomatic Seizures.
... Drug treatment after first seizure is controversial. Too large recent randomized studies of children and adults compared antiepileptic drugs with, no treatment after a first seizure and came to an identical ...
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Mystery Case: A young boy with myoclonic jerks
... epilepsy. Seizure types can include myoclonus, occipital seizures with tran- sient blindness or visual hallucinations, atypical absences, and atonic and complex partial ...
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PREVALENCE OF IRON DEFICIENCY IN CHILDREAN WITH FEBRILE SEIZURE
... The demographic and anthropometric variables were age, sex, body mass index, monthly family income, sanitation facility, source of drinking water and food habit. The clinical features of febrile seizures were fever, ...
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Journal of Neurological Research and Therapy
... The significant number of patients (30% on average) having mixed epileptic and non-epileptic seizure disorders, reduction of medication and further recording to exclude an underlying epileptic diathesis is ...
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THE DIFFERENCES IN BEING DIFFERENT: A NARRATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE NATURE OF EPILEPSY IN ADULTS AND ITS PROBLEMS
... Muhlbauer’s third operational level of stigma is embedded in legal discrimination against people with epilepsy. As previously discussed, this practice dates back centuries and included restrictions on immigration, ...
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Redefining Outcome of First Seizures by Acute Illness
... the seizure that was identified as the index seizure in our ...the seizure, an observa- tion that is comparable to findings of other reported ...
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<p>Predictors of Outcome in Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy</p>
... at seizure onset was 14 years old, and the average duration of epilepsy was 5 ...Febrile seizure was noted in ...of seizure outcome: the onset of JME at age <16 years, epileptiform runs ≥ 3 s ...
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Genetics of Lafora progressive myoclonic epilepsy: current perspectives
... Lafora disease (LD; OMIM 254780) is an autosomal recessive, progressive metabolic disorder characterized by intractable myoclonus and seizures, inexorable neurological deterioration, cognitive decline, unfavorable ...
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... febrile seizure and epilepsy, age during first febrile convulsion (in cases of ≥1 recurrences), presence or absence of focal features, duration of the febrile seizure, the duration of fever prior to the ...
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