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Good Outcome of Resective Epilepsy Surgery in a 1-Year-Old Child with Drug-Resistant Focal Epilepsy with a Novel Pathogenic COL4A1 Mutation.
Neuropediatrics - 1 Aug 2024
Fearns Nicholas, Wagner Matias, Borggräfe Ingo, Kunz Mathias, Rémi Jan, Vollmar Christian
Abstract excerpt
Pathogenic variants in COL4A1, encoding the α chain of type IV collagen, have been associated with cerebrovascular pathology as well as malformations of cortical development, thereby causing structural epilepsy. This case illustrates successful resective epilepsy surgery in a 12-month-old girl with left occipital focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) associated with a heterozygous splice-donor variant in COL4A1. She...
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