Ictal video-polysomnography and EEG spectral analysis in a child with severe Panayiotopoulos syndrome

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 333-339

  Parisi, Pasquale ^a   Ferri, Raffaele ^b   Pagani, Jacopo ^a   Cecili, Manuela ^a   Montemitro, Enza ^a   Villa, Maria Pia ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b OASI RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Compressed spectral array; EEG spectral analysis; Ictal EEG; Idiopathic occipital epilepsy; Panayiotopoulos syndrome; Sleep videopolysomnography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MALAISE; MALE; NAUSEA; NIGHT; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ONSET AGE; PALLOR; PANAYIOTOPOULOS SYNDROME; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SLEEP STAGE; TACHYCARDIA; VIDEORECORDING; VOMITING;

ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EYE MOVEMENTS; HALLUCINATIONS; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MALE; NAUSEA; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP DISORDERS, INTRINSIC; SYNDROME; VALPROIC ACID; VIDEO RECORDING; VOMITING;

EID: 30344448564     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Andermann F, Zifkin B. The benign occipital epilepsies of childhood: an overview of the idiopathic syndromes and of the relationship to migraine. Epilepsia 1998; 39(Suppl 4): S9-S23.
2. Bickford RG, Billinger TW, Fleming NI, et al. The compressed spectral array (CSA): A pictorial EEG. Proc San Diego Biomed Symp 1972; 11: 365-70.
3. Caraballo R, Cersosimo R, Medina C, et al. Panayiotopoulos-type benign childhood occipital epilepsy: a prospective study. Neurology 2000; 55: 1096-100.
4. Cooley JW, Tukey OW. An algorithm for the machine calculation of complex Fourier series. Math Comput 1965; 19: 297-301.
5. Covanis A, Lada C, Skiadas K. Children with rolandic spikes and ictus emeticus: rolandic epilepsy or Panayiotopoulos syndrome? Epileptic Disord 2003; 5: 139-43.
6. Demirbilek V, Dervent A. Panayiotopoulos syndrome: video-EEG illustration of a typical seizure. Epileptic Disord 2004; 6: 121-4.
7. Ferrie CD, Beaumanoir A, Guerrini R, et al. Early-onset benign occipital seizure susceptibility syndrome. Epilepsia 1997; 38: 285-93.
8. Ferrie CD, Grunewald RA. Panayiotopoulos syndrome: a common and benign childhood epilepsy. Lancet 2001; 357: 821-3; [Commentary].
9. Gastaut H. A new type of epilepsy: benign partial epilepsy of childhood with occipital spike-waves. Clin Electroencephalogr 1982; 13: 13-22.
10. Kemp B, Värri A, Rosa AC, et al. A simple format for exchange of digitized polygraphic recordings. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1992;82:391-3.
11. Koutroumanidis M. Panayiotopoulos syndrome: a common benign but underdiagnosed and unexplored early childhood seizure syndrome. BMJ 2002; 324: 1228-9; [Editorial].
12. Lada C, Skiadas K, Theodorou V, Covanis A. A study of 43 patients with Panayiotopoulos syndrome: A common and benign childhood seizure susceptibility. Epilepsia 2003; 44: 81-8.
13. Oguni H, Hayashi K, Imai K, et al. Study on the early-onset variant of benign childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxysms otherwise described as early-onset benign occipital seizure susceptibility syndrome. Epilepsia 1999; 40: 1020-30.
14. Ohtsu M, Oguni H, Hayashi K, et al. EEG in children with early-onset benign occipital seizure susceptibility syndrome: Panayiotopoulos syndrome. Epilepsia 2003; 44: 435-42.
15. Panayiotopoulos CP. Vomiting as an ictal manifestation of epileptic seizures and syndromes. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatr 1988; 51: 1448-51.
16. Panayiotopoulos CP. Panayiotopoulos syndrome: A common and benign childhood epileptic syndrome. London: John Libbey and Company, 2002.
17. Panayiotopoulos CP. Autonomic seizures and autonomic status epilepticus peculiar to childhood: diagnosis and management. Epilepsy Behav 2004; 5: 286-95.
18. Panayiotopoulos CP. Benign childhood focal seizures and related epileptic syndromes. In: Panayiotopoulos CP, ed. The Epilepsies: Seizures, Syndromes and Management. Oxford: Bladon Medical Publishing, 2005: 223-69.
19. Rechtschaffen A, Kales A. A manual of standardized terminology, techniques and scoring system of sleep stages of human subjects. Washington Public Health Service. US Government Printing Office, 1968.
20. Sanders S, Rowlinson S, Manidakis I, Ferrie CD, Koutroumanidis M. The contribution of the EEG technologists in the diagnosis of Panayiotopoulos syndrome (Susceptibility to early onset benign childhood autonomic seizures). Seizure 2004; 13: 565-73.
21. Vigevano F, Lispi ML, Ricci S. Early onset benign occipital susceptibility syndrome: video-EEG documentation of an illustrative case. Clin Neurophysiol 2000; 111(Suppl 2): S81-S86.