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Severe myoclonic epilepsy of infants (Dravet syndrome): natural history and neuropsychological findings.
Epilepsia - 1 Jan 2006
Wolff Markus, Cassé-Perrot Catherine, Dravet Charlotte
Abstract excerpt
Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy in infancy (SMEI, or Dravet syndrome) is a drug-resistant epilepsy that occurs in the first year of life of previously healthy children. The main clinical features are prolonged and repeated febrile and afebrile generalized or unilateral convulsive seizures. In the course of the epilepsy, cognitive deterioration becomes evident, and interictal myoclonus, clumsiness and ataxia appear. One...
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