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Severe attacks of familial hemiplegic migraine, childhood epilepsy and ATP1A2 mutation.
Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache - 1 Jul 2008
Lebas A, Guyant-Maréchal L, Hannequin D, Riant F, Tournier-Lasserve E, Parain D
Abstract excerpt
We studied four members of a family suffering from typical attacks of familial hemiplegic migraine (FHM) caused by a new mutation, R548C, of ATP1A2 gene in exon 12. One individual had also childhood absence epilepsy and generalized tonic-clonic seizures (GTCS). GTCS were followed by a severe attack of hemiplegic migraine at four times. Sodium valproate enabled control of both the epileptic seizures and the most...
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