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Hemiconvulsion-hemiplegia syndrome in a patient with severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy.
Epilepsia - 1 Sept 2009
Sakakibara Takafumi, Nakagawa Eiji, Saito Yoshiaki, Sakuma Hiroshi, Komaki Hirofumi, Sugai Kenji, Sasaki Masayuki, Kurahashi Hirokazu, Hirose Shinichi
Abstract excerpt
We report a 2-year-old girl who had repeated febrile or afebrile seizures since infancy. Prolonged left/right hemiconvulsions and myoclonus of the eyelids/extremities with generalization to tonic-clonic seizures, were refractory to antiepileptic agents. At age 1 year and 4 months, she contracted rotavirus infection, and developed status epilepticus with persistent right hemiclonic seizures. Left unilateral brain...
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