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Diagnosis of Infantile Spasms, Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome, and Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsy
- Source :
- Epilepsia. 45:2-4
- Publication Year :
- 2004
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2004.
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Abstract
- The epilepsies of childhood are distinguished by an interesting dichotomy between the benign and catastrophic disorders. Approximately 50% of children outgrow childhood epilepsy as they mature; although the disorder is disruptive for children and families alike, it is not considered a medical disaster. The catastrophic epilepsies of childhood, in contrast, are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Infantile spasms, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, and the progressive myoclonic epilepsies are correlated with significant disability and a multiplicity of underlying etiologies. Accurate diagnosis of both the syndrome and the etiology is very important for treatment purposes, as well as for family education, since many of the disorders have a significant genetic component.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Childhood epilepsy
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Family education
Epilepsies, Myoclonic
Progressive myoclonus epilepsy
Diagnosis, Differential
Central nervous system disease
Epilepsy
Unverricht-Lundborg Syndrome
Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathies
Mucolipidoses
Neuronal Ceroid-Lipofuscinoses
Professional-Family Relations
medicine
Humans
Child
Psychiatry
business.industry
Age Factors
Infant, Newborn
Infant
Prognosis
medicine.disease
Lafora Disease
Neurology
El Niño
Child, Preschool
Etiology
Neurology (clinical)
business
Spasms, Infantile
Lennox–Gastaut syndrome
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15281167 and 00139580
- Volume :
- 45
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Epilepsia
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b0db4cfc89b5f74884c905ad1f59a4f8