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Dravet syndrome: a genetic epileptic disorder.
Acta medica Okayama - 1 Jan 2012
Akiyama Mari, Kobayashi Katsuhiro, Ohtsuka Yoko
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Dravet syndrome (DS), or severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy, is one of the most severe types of genetic epilepsy. It is characterized by the initial occurrence of febrile or afebrile seizures that often evolve into status epilepticus in infants with normal development, and by the subsequent appearance of myoclonic and/or atypical absence seizures as well as complex partial seizures. The key feature that...
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