Long-term course of Dravet syndrome: A study from an epilepsy center in Japan

Epilepsia

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 528-538

  Takayama, Rumiko ^a   Fujiwara, Tateki ^a   Shigematsu, Hideo ^a   Imai, Katsumi ^a   Takahashi, Yukitoshi ^a   Yamakawa, Kazuhiro ^b   Inoue, Yushi ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA INSTITUTE OF EPILEPSY AND NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS   (Japan)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intractable childhood epilepsy with generalized tonic clonic seizure; Long term course; Neuronal voltage gated sodium channel alpha subunit type 1 gene; Severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; LAMOTRIGINE; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.1; STIRIPENTOL; TOPIRAMATE;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; CLONIC SEIZURE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROWNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE FREQUENCY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONSENSE MUTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSENSITIVE EPILEPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERE MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY IN INFANCY; SPIKE WAVE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUDDEN DEATH; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899099774     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/epi.12532     Document Type: Article

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