Clinical presentation, EEG studies, and novel mutations in two cases of GLUT1 deficiency syndrome in Japan.

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We report the first two Japanese children diagnosed with glucose transporter type 1 (GLUT1) deficiency syndrome. Both boys had been treated under the initial diagnosis of epilepsy and were reinvestigated for previously unexplainable hypoglycorrhachia. Myoclonic seizures developed at 4 months of age in Patient #1 (7 years old), and at 2 months of age in Patient #2 (11 years old), followed by cerebellar ataxia,...

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