"Migralepsy": A call for revision of the definition

Epilepsia

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 932-933

  Parisi, Pasquale ^a   Trenité, Dorothée G A Kasteleijn Nolst ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; HEADACHE; HEMIPLEGIC MIGRAINE; HUMAN; LETTER; MIGRAINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 77951588586     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02407.x     Document Type: Letter

References (12)

1. Ferrie CD, Caraballo R, Covanis A, Demirbilek V, Dervent A, Fejerman N, Fusco L, Grünewald RA, Kanazawa O, Koutroumanidis M, Lada C, Livingston JH, Nicotra A, Oguni H, Martinovic Z, Nordli DR Jr, Parisi P, Scott RC, Specchio N, Verrotti A, Vigevano F, Walker MC, Watanabe K, Yoshinaga H, Panayiotopoulos CP. (2007) Autonomic status epilepticus in Panayiotopoulos syndrome and other childhood and adult epilepsies: a consensus view. Epilepsia 48:1165-1172.
2. Goadsby PJ, Charbit AR, Andreou AP, Akerman S, Holland PR. (2009) Neurobiology of Migraine. Neuroscience 161:327-341.
3. Koutroumanidis M. (2007) Panayiotopoulos syndrome: an important electroclinical example of benign childhood system epilepsy. Epilepsia 48:1044-1053.
4. Maggioni F, Mampreso E, Ruffatti S, Viaro F, Lunardelli V, Zanchin G. (2008) Migralepsy: is the current definition too narrow? Headache 48:1129-1132.
5. Michael M, Tsatsou K, Ferrie CD. (2009) Panayiotopoulos syndrome: an important childhood autonomic epilepsy to be differentiated from occipital epilepsy and acute non-epileptic disorders. Brain Dev doi:10.1016/j.braindev. 2009.03.002
6. Parisi P, Kasteleijn-Nolst Trenité DG, Piccioli M, Pelliccia A, Luchetti A, Buttinelli C, Villa MP. (2007) A case with atypical childhood occipital epilepsy "Gastaut type": an ictal migraine manifestation with a good response to intravenous diazepam. Epilepsia 48:2181-2186.
7. Parisi P, Piccioli M, de Sneeuw S, de Kovel C, van Nieuwenhuizen O, Buttinelli C, Villa MP, Kasteleijn-Nolst Trenité DG. (2008a) Redefining headache diagnostic criteria as epileptic manifestation? Cephalalgia 28:408-409. Author reply 409.
8. Parisi P, Piccioli M, Villa MP, Buttinelli C, Kasteleijn-Nolst Trenete DGA. (2008b) Hypothesis on neurophysiopathological mechanisms linking epilepsy and headache. Med Hypotheses 70:1150-1154.
9. Parisi P. (2009a) Why is migraine rarely, and not usually, the sole ictal epileptic manifestation? Seizure 18:309-312.
10. Parisi P. (2009b) Who's still afraid of the link between headache and epilepsy? Some reactions to and reflections on the article by Marte Helene Bjørk and co-workers. J Headache Pain 10:327-329.
11. Piccioli M, Parisi P, Tisei P, Villa MP, Buttinelli C, Kasteleijn-Nolst Trenité DGA. (2009) Ictal headache and visual sensitivity. Cephalalgia 29:194-203.
12. Walker MC, Smith SJM, Sisodya SM, Shorvon SD. (1995) Case of simple partial status epilepticus in occipital lobe epilepsy misdiagnosed as migraine: clinical, electrophysiological, and magnetic resonance imaging characteristics. Epilepsia 36:1233-1236.