Epilepsy with Myoclonic absences

Bureau, Michelle; Tassinari, C. A.

doi:10.1016/j.braindev.2004.01.008

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“…The jerks and the tonic contraction may be unilateral or asymmetrical, and head/body deviation may be a constant feature in some patients. 5,6 In our patients, the symmetrical or asymmetrical myoclonia are restricted to the neck without limbs jerks, and the movement of the head was rhythmic jerks to one or both sides instead of transitory or continuous deviation. Therefore, the seizures in our patients did not belong to myoclonic absences.…”

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Neck Myoclonia With Absence Seizures: Report of 3 Cases

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Absence seizures associated with myoclonic phenomena can be seen in typical absences, myoclonic absences, eyelid myoclonia, and perioral myoclonia, all of which have diagnostic electroclinical features. The authors report 3 patients who encountered prominently rhythmic neck myoclonias with and without absences (loss of awareness). The descriptive symptoms of attacks by witnesses were head shaking or turning repeatedly instead of absences. The seizures were induced by hyperventilation in all 3 cases. Two cases had a history of previous febrile seizures. In all patients, video-electroencephalography showed a one-to-one correspondence relationship between the 2.5- to 3.5-Hz generalized spike and wave discharges and the rhythmic myoclonic jerks of the neck, which was further confirmed by sternocleidomastoideus electromyography recording in 1 patient. Seizures had been controlled by 1 or 2 antiepileptic drugs. Neck myoclonia with absences might be classified either as 1 special subtype of typical absence or as an independent seizure type. Paying close attention to the special phenomenon will help to clarify the clinical spectrum of this seizure.

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Neck Myoclonia With Absence Seizures: Report of 3 Cases

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“…2 The clinical and electroencephalographic phenotype of other possible absence epilepsies with myoclonic components are still being described. 3,4 …”

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An Unusual Cause of Daytime Urinary Incontinence

Jain

Sharma

Aneja

2015

Pediatric Neurology

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“…The myoclonus may cause progressive elevation of the arms. Myoclonic absences are often provoked by HV, drowsiness and awakening from light sleep and can be triggered by PS in up to 14% [157]. Two-thirds of patients also have GTCS and typical absences [157].…”

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“…Epilepsy with myoclonic absences is a rare GGE/IGE syndrome with a mean age of onset at 7 years and male preponderance [145,154,157]. Frequent absence seizures accompanied by bilateral rhythmic myoclonic jerks lasting 10-60 s are the characteristic seizure type.…”

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Non-invasive EEG evaluation in epilepsy diagnosis

Rosenow

Klein

Hamer

2015

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

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The EEG is an invaluable tool in the diagnosis of epilepsy which guides clinical management. It helps to determine if attacks are of epileptic origin, allows the estimation of the recurrence risk after a first seizure, aids in the diagnosis of the epilepsy syndrome and represents the gold standard in the presurgical evaluation of epilepsy. The EEG can also detect subclinical seizures as a cause of coma. In this review we discuss the sensitivity and specificity of the EEG, present the EEG findings and their significance in different epilepsy syndromes including focal and generalized epilepsies and describe the application of activation procedures.

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Epilepsy with Myoclonic absences

Cited by 81 publications

References 11 publications

Neck Myoclonia With Absence Seizures: Report of 3 Cases

Neck Myoclonia With Absence Seizures: Report of 3 Cases

An Unusual Cause of Daytime Urinary Incontinence

Non-invasive EEG evaluation in epilepsy diagnosis

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