Epilepsy in mitochondrial disorders

Seizure

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 316-321

  Finsterer, Josef ^a   Zarrouk Mahjoub, Sinda ^b  

^a DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic drugs; Central nervous system involvement; EEG; Epilepsy; Mitochondrial disorder; Seizure

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; VALPROIC ACID;

ALPERS DISEASE; ATAXIA NEUROPATHY SPECTRUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; EPILEPSY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; INFANTILE ONSET SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIA; KEARNS SAYRE SYNDROME; LEBER HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY; LEIGH DISEASE; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY WITH BRAIN STEM AND SPINAL CORD INVOLVEMENT AND LACTACIDOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; MEDLINE; MELAS SYNDROME; MERRF SYNDROME; MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY MYOPATHY AND SENSORY ATAXIA SYNDROME; NARP SYNDROME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TENDON REFLEX; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; WEST SYNDROME;

ANTICONVULSANTS; ATAXIA; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84860698221     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: 15322688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2012.03.003     Document Type: Review

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