Friday, December 2, 2016

Early infantile epileptic encephalopathy


also known as Otahara syndrome
onset: within the first 3 months of age.
description: tonic spasm, episodes lasting for 10 sec, may occur many times per day.
EEG: spasm coincides with the burst of high amplitude spikes and polyspikes.

may progress to
West syndrome: hypsarrhythmia, infantile spam, developmental delay
Dravet syndrome

7 genes, known

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