Benign childhood focal epilepsies: assessment of established and newly recognized syndromes

Brain : a Journal of Neurology
C P PanayiotopoulosMichael Koutroumanidis

Abstract

A big advance in epileptology has been the recognition of syndromes with distinct aetiology, clinical and EEG features, treatment and prognosis. A prime and common example of this is rolandic epilepsy that is well known by the general paediatricians for over 50 years, thus allowing a precise diagnosis that predicts an excellent prognosis. However, rolandic is not the only benign childhood epileptic syndrome. Converging evidence from multiple and independent clinical, EEG and magnetoencephalographic studies has documented Panayiotopoulos syndrome (PS) as a model of childhood autonomic epilepsy, which is also common and benign. Despite high prevalence, lengthy and dramatic features, PS as well as autonomic status epilepticus had eluded recognition because emetic and other ictal autonomic manifestations were dismissed as non-epileptic events of other diseases. Furthermore, PS because of frequent EEG occipital spikes has been erroneously considered as occipital epilepsy and thus confused with the idiopathic childhood occipital epilepsy of Gastaut (ICOE-G), which is another age-related but rarer and of unpredictable prognosis syndrome. Encephalitis is a common misdiagnosis for PS and migraine with visual aura for ICOE-G. Pathophysio...Continue Reading

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