Clinical characteristics of a South Indian cohort of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy probands

Seizure

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 490-496

  Vijai, J ^a   Cherian, P J ^a   Sylaja, P N ^a   Anand, A ^b   Radhakrishnan, K ^a  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Absence seizures; Clinical features; Clinical genetics; Diagnosis; EEG; Epilepsy; Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy; Photoparoxysmal response; Problems and pitfalls

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ABSENCE; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL GENETICS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE CONTROL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; INDIA; INHERITANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; REVIEW;

EID: 0141828609     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1059-1311(03)00049-9     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Janz, D. and Durner, M. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. In: Epilepsy: A Comprehensive Textbook (Eds J. Engel Jr and T. A. Pedley). Philadelphia, Lippincott-Raven Publishers, 1997: pp. 2389-2400.
2. Janz, D. Epilepsy with impulsive petit mal (juvenile myoclonic epilepsy). Acta Neurologica Scandinavica 1985; 72: 449-459.
3. Grünewald, A. and Panayiotopoulos, C. P. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. A review. Archives of Neurology 1993; 50: 594-598.
4. Penry, J. K., Dean, J. C. and Riela, A. R. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: long-term response to therapy. Epilepsia 1989; 30 (Suppl. 4): S19-S23.
5. Kleveland, G. and Engelsen, B. A. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: clinical characteristics, treatment and prognosis in a Norwegian population of patients. Seizure 1998; 7: 37-38.
6. Janz, D. and Christian, W. Impulsive-petit mal. Deutsche Zeitschrift für Nervenheilkunde 1957; 176: 348-386.
7. Commission on Classification and Terminology of the International League Against Epilepsy. Proposal for revised classification of epilepsies and epileptic syndromes. Epilepsia 1989; 30: 389-399.
8. Montalenti, D., Imperiale, A., Rovera, B., Bergamasco, B. and Benna, P. Clinical features, EEG findings and diagnostic pitfalls in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: a series of 63 patients. Journal of Neurological Sciences 2001; 184: 65-70.
9. Atakli, D., Sozuer, D., Atay, T. et al. Misdiagnosis and treatment in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Seizure 1998; 7: 63-66.
10. Murthy, J. M. K., Rao, C. M. and Meena, A. K. Clinical observations of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy in 131 patients: a study in South India. Seizure 1998; 7: 43-47.
11. Gunatilake, B. and Seneviratne, S. L. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: a study in Sri Lanka. Seizure 2000; 9: 221-223.
12. Panayiotopoulos, C. P., Tahan, R. and Obeid, T. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: factors of error involved in the diagnosis and treatment. Epilepsia 1991; 32: 672-676.
13. Vazquez, B., Devinsky, O., Luciano, D., Alper, K. and Perrine, K. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: clinical features and factors related to misdiagnosis. Journal of Epilepsy 1993; 6: 233-238.
14. Lancman, M. E., Asconapé, J. J. and Penry, J. K. Clinical and EEG asymmetries in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Epilepsia 1994; 35: 302-306.
15. Murthy, J. M. K. Factors of error involved in the diagnosis of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy a study from South India. Neurology India 1999; 47: 210-213.
16. Jain, S., Padma, M. V. and Maheshwari, M. C. Occurrence of only myoclonic jerks in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica 1997; 95: 263-267.
17. Gram, L., Alving, J., Sagild, J. C. and Dam, M. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy in unexpected age groups. Epilepsy Research 1988; 2: 137-140.
18. Aliberti, V., Grünewald, A., Panayiotopoulos, C. P. and Chroni, E. Focal electroencephalographic abnormalities in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Epilepsia 1994; 35: 297-301.
19. Fernando-Dongas, M. C., Rsdtke, R. A., Van Landingham, K. E. and Husain, A. M. Characteristics of valproic acid resistant juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Seizure 2000; 9: 385-388.
20. Gelisse, P., Genton, P., Thomas, P., Rey, M., Samuelian, J. C. and Dravet, C. Clinical factors of drug resistance in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 2001; 70: 240-243.
21. McNamara, J. O. Emerging insights into the pathogenesis of epilepsy. Nature 1999; 399 (Suppl.): A15-A22.
22. Greenberg, D. A., Delgado-Escueta, A. V., Widelitz, H. et al. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) may be linked to the BF and HLA loci on human chromosome 6. American Journal of Human Genetics 1988; 31: 185-192.
23. Sander, T., Bockenkamp, B., Hildmann, T. et al. Refined mapping of the epilepsy susceptibility locus EJM1 on chromosome 6. Neurology 1997; 49: 842-847.
24. Whitehouse, W. P., Rees, M., Curtis, A. et al. Linkage analysis of idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) and marker on chromosome 6p in families of patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy; no evidence for an epilepsy locus in the HLA region. American Journal of Human Genetics 1993; 53: 652-662.
25. Elmslie, F. V., Williamson, M. P., Rees, M. et al. Linkage analysis of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and microsatellite loci spanning 61 cM of human chromosome 6p in 19 nuclear pedigrees provides no evidence for a susceptibility locus in this region. American Journal of Human Genetics 1996; 59: 653-663.
26. Obach, V., Arroyo, S., Santamaria, J. et al. No evidence of linkage to 6p markers in Spanish families with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Neuroscience Letter 2000; 286: 213-217.
27. Elmslie, F. V., Rees, M. and Williamson, M. P. Genetic mapping of a major susceptibility locus for juvenile myoclonic epilepsy on chromosome 15. Human Molecular Genetics 1997; 6: 1329-1334.
28. Durner, M., Shinnar, S., Resor, S. R. et al. No evidence for a major susceptibility locus for juvenile myoclonic epilepsy on chromosome 15q. American Journal of Human Genetics 2000; 96: 49-52.
29. Zachariah, K. C. Models of development and demographic changes: a case study of Kerala. Demography India 1998; 27: 71-89.
30. Thankappan, K. R. and Valiathan, M. S. Health at low cost: the Kerala model. Lancet 1998; 351: 1274-1275.
31. Radhakrishnan, K., Santoshkumar, B. and Venugopa, A. Prevalence of benign epileptiform variants observed in an EEG laboratory from South India. Clinical Neurophysiology 1999; 110: 280-285.
32. Radhakrishnan, K., Nayak, S. D., Nandini, V. S. and Venugopal, A. Prevalence of photoparoxysmal response among South Indian epilepsy patients. Seizure 1998; 7: 397-401.
33. Grunewald, R. A., Chroni, E. and Panayiotopoulos, C. P. Delayed diagnosis of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 1992; 55: 497-499.
34. Genton, P., Gelisse, P., Thomas, P. and Dravet, C. Do carbamazepine and phenytoin aggravate juvenile myoclonic epilepsy? Neurology 2000; 55: 1106-1109.
35. Panayiotopoulos, C. P., Obeid, T. and Tahan, A. R. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: a 5-year prospective study. Epilepsia 1994; 35: 285-296.
36. Baykan, B., Gokyigit, A. and Calskan, A. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Archives of Neuropsychiatry (Turkey) 1991; 28: 41-47.
37. Asconapé, J. and Penry, J. K. Some clinical and EEG aspects of benign juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Epilepsia 1984; 25: 108-114.
38. Delgado-Escueta, A. V. and Enrile-Bacsal, E. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy of Janz. Neurology 1984; 34: 285-294.
39. Jain, S., Padma, M. V., Puri, R. and Maheshwari, M. C. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: disease expression among Indian families. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica 1998; 97: 1-7.
40. Panayiotopoulous, C. P., Obeid, T. and Waheed, G. Differentiation of typical absence seizures in epileptic syndromes: a video EEG study of 224 seizures in 20 patients. Brain 1989; 112: 1039-1057.
41. Ksteleijin-Nolst Trenite, D. G. A. Photosensitivity in epilepsy: electrophysiological and clinical correlates. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica 1989; 80 (Suppl. 125): 29-102.
42. Jeavons, P. M., Bishop, A. and Harding, G. F. A. The prognosis of photosensitivity. Epilepsia 1986; 27: 569-575.
43. Appleton, R., Beirne, M. and Acomb, B. Photosensitivity in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Seizure 2000; 9: 108-111.
44. Myslobodsky, M. S., Mintz, M. and Douglas, R. Electroencephalographic and behavioural effects of sodium valproate in patients with photosensitive epilepsy. A single dose trial. Journal of Neurology 1980; 224: 111-123.
45. De Graaf, A. S., Lombard, C. J. and Claassen, D. A. Influence of ethnic and geographical factors on the classic photoparoxysmal response in the electroencephalogram of epilepsy patients. Epilepsia 1995; 36: 219-223.
46. Saleem, S. M., Thomas, M., Jain, S. and Maheshwari, M. C. Incidence of photosensitive epilepsy in unselected Indian epileptic population. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica 1994; 89: 5-8.
47. Jayakar, P. and Chiappa, R. H. Clinical correlates of photoparoxysmal responses. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 1990; 75: 251-254.
48. Shiraishi, H., Fujiwara, T., Inoue, Y. and Yagi, K. Photosensitivity in relation to epileptic syndromes: a survey from an epilepsy center in Japan. Epilepsia 2001; 42: 393-397.
49. Serratosa, M., Delgado-Escueta, A. V., Medina, M. T., Zhang, Q., Iranmanesh, R. and Sparkes, R. S. Clinical and genetic analysis of a large pedigree with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Annals of Neurology 1996; 39: 187-195.
50. Cossette, P., Liu, L., Brisebois, K. et al. Mutation of GABRA1 in an autosomal dominant form of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Nature Genetics 2002; 31: 184-189.
51. Prasad, A. N., Prasad, C. and Stafstrom, C. E. Recent advances in the genetics of epilepsy: insights from human and animal studies. Epilepsia 1999; 40: 1329-1352.
52. Avoli, M., Rogawaski, M. A. and Avanzini, G. Generalized epileptic disorders: an update. Epilepsia 2001; 42: 445-457.