Self-limited epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes: A study of 46 patients with unusual clinical manifestations.

Abstract:

PURPOSE:We retrospectively analyzed the seizure characteristics, EEG pattern, treatment, and outcome in a series of patients with self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (SLECTS) who presented with unusual clinical manifestations. METHOD:A retrospective, descriptive, multicenter study was conducted evaluating 46 patients with SLECTS who had seizures with an unusual semiology. We collected data from patients with SLECTS seen at eight Argentine centers between April 1998 and April 2018. RESULTS:Thirteen patients (28.2 %) had seizures with affective symptoms characterized by sudden fright and autonomic disturbances and mild impairment of consciousness. Eleven patients (24.8 %) had frequent seizures characterized by unilateral facial sensorimotor symptoms, oropharyngolaryngeal manifestations, and speech arrest with sialorrhea only when awake. Seven patients (15.3 %) started with opercular epileptic status with unilateral or bilateral clonic seizures of the mouth with speech arrest and sialorrhea when awake and during sleep. Seven patients (15.3 %) had postictal Todd's paralysis after unilateral clonic seizures with facial and limb movements lasting between 60 min and 130 min. Six patients (13 %) had negative myoclonus, two in a unilateral upper limb, two in a unilateral lower limb, and the remaining two patients had frequent falls. One patient (2.1 %) had focal sensorimotor seizures characterized by unilateral numbness in the cheeks and one upper limb, additional to unilateral facial clonic seizures, speech arrest, and sialorrhea. The remaining patient (2.1 %) had sporadic focal tonic-dystonic seizures in the left upper limb only during sleep. CONCLUSION:In our study, we found evidence of the existence of unusual clinical cases of SLECTS with typical EEG patterns and an excellent prognosis.

journal_name

Epilepsy Res

journal_title

Epilepsy research

authors

Galicchio S,Espeche A,Cersosimo R,Chacon S,Gamboni B,Adi J,Fasulo L,Semprino M,Fortini S,Cachia P,Caraballo RH

doi

10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2020.106507

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2021-01-01 00:00:00

pages

106507

eissn

0920-1211

issn

1872-6844

pii

S0920-1211(20)30558-1

journal_volume

169

pub_type

杂志文章
  • Chronic temporal lobe epilepsy: spatial extent and degree of metabolic dysfunction studied with magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS).

    abstract:INTRODUCTION:Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H MRS) has been proposed as a lateralizing method for the presurgical evaluation of patients with medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Studies have shown correlations between temporal lobe (TL) NAA and seizure frequency, and TL NAA/Cr and the durati...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2004.06.010

    authors: Burneo JG,Knowlton RC,Faught E,Martin R,Sawrie S,Kuzniecky RI

    更新日期:2004-12-01 00:00:00

  • The neuronal excitability time-dependently changes after lipopolysaccharide administration in mice: possible role of cyclooxygenase-2 induction.

    abstract::The parameters of pentylenetetrazol (PTZ)-induced seizures have been evaluated at various time intervals after lipopolysaccharide (LPS; Escherichia coli O111:B4, 100 microg/kg, i.p.) administration in mice. A proconvulsant effect occurred 4h after LPS injection with decreased seizure latency and enhanced seizure inten...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2006.06.009

    authors: Akarsu ES,Ozdayi S,Algan E,Ulupinar F

    更新日期:2006-10-01 00:00:00

  • A cohort study of pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy and high prevalence of splice site IVS11+1G>A mutation in Chinese patients.

    abstract:PURPOSE:Pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy (PDE) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations of the ALDH7A1 gene. We aimed to analyze the relations between the clinical diagnosis and treatment of PDE and ALDH7A1 gene mutations in Chinese PDE patients. METHODS:The clinical manifestations, diagnosis and treatm...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2015.10.002

    authors: Xue J,Qian P,Li H,Wu Y,Liu X,Yang Z

    更新日期:2015-12-01 00:00:00

  • Effects of levetiracetam as a monotherapy on bone mineral density and biochemical markers of bone metabolism in patients with epilepsy.

    abstract:PURPOSE:Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) may have adverse effects on bone metabolism and bone mineral density (BMD). The aim of this study is to determine the changes of bone metabolism and BMD in epilepsy patients who are undergoing levetiracetam (LEV) monotherapy. METHODS:Drug-naïve, sixty-one patients with recent onset e...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.09.002

    authors: Koo DL,Joo EY,Kim D,Hong SB

    更新日期:2013-03-01 00:00:00

  • The incidence of seizures in patients undergoing therapeutic hypothermia after resuscitation from cardiac arrest.

    abstract:STUDY OBJECTIVE:Non-convulsive seizures/status epilepticus occur in approximately 20% of comatose, non-cardiac arrest intensive care unit (ICU) patients, and are associated with increased mortality. The prevalence and clinical significance of seizures in comatose survivors of cardiac arrest undergoing therapeutic hypot...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2013.06.018

    authors: Knight WA,Hart KW,Adeoye OM,Bonomo JB,Keegan SP,Ficker DM,Szaflarski JP,Privitera MD,Lindsell CJ

    更新日期:2013-10-01 00:00:00

  • Inhalation of 10% carbon dioxide rapidly terminates Scn1a mutation-related hyperthermia-induced seizures.

    abstract::The aim of this study was to assess the anticonvulsant effect of carbon dioxide (CO2) on Scn1a mutation-related febrile seizures. We examined physiological changes in the blood gas levels after the induction of hyperthermia-induced seizures (HISs), which were associated with the Scn1a missense mutation. We determined ...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2013.01.003

    authors: Ohmori I,Hayashi K,Wang H,Ouchida M,Fujita N,Inoue T,Michiue H,Nishiki T,Matsui H

    更新日期:2013-07-01 00:00:00

  • Diffusion tensor imaging in patients with focal epilepsy due to cortical dysplasia in the temporo-occipital region: electro-clinico-pathological correlations.

    abstract:PURPOSE:Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) provides information about magnitude (diffusivity) and directionality (anisotropy, FA) of water diffusion. We explored the characteristics of pathology-proven cortical dysplasia (CD) in the posterior quadrant in a case series of three patients using DTI measures, to assess associa...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2010.03.006

    authors: Diehl B,Tkach J,Piao Z,Ruggieri P,LaPresto E,Liu P,Fisher E,Bingaman W,Najm I

    更新日期:2010-08-01 00:00:00

  • Medicare claims can identify post-stroke epilepsy.

    abstract:OBJECTIVE:There have been no validated Medicare claims-based algorithms available to identify epilepsy by discrete etiology of stroke (e.g., post-stroke epilepsy, PSE) in community-dwelling elderly individuals, despite the increasing availability of large datasets. Our objective was to validate algorithms that detect w...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2019.02.002

    authors: Moura LMVR,Smith JR,Blacker D,Vogeli C,Schwamm LH,Hsu J

    更新日期:2019-03-01 00:00:00

  • Shift in electrocorticography electrode locations after surgical implantation in children.

    abstract::Interpreting electrocorticography (ECoG) in the context of neuroimaging requires that multimodal information be integrated accurately. However, the implantation of ECoG electrodes can shift the brain impacting the spatial interpretation of electrode locations in the context of pre-implant imaging. We characterized the...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2020.106410

    authors: Foldes ST,Munter BT,Appavu BL,Kerrigan JF,Adelson PD

    更新日期:2020-11-01 00:00:00

  • Effects of ketamine on EEG in baboons with genetic generalized epilepsy.

    abstract::Ketamine, a noncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antagonist, used as an anesthetic has been reported to induce seizures both in humans and baboons predisposed to epilepsy. In this study, we aimed to characterize the acute effects of ketamine on scalp (sc-EEG) and intracranial EEG (ic-EEG) in the baboon...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2019.04.008

    authors: Gowda S,Szabó CÁ

    更新日期:2019-08-01 00:00:00

  • Experimental secondarily generalized convulsive status epilepticus induced by D,L-homocysteine thiolactone.

    abstract::Secondarily generalized convulsive status epilepticus was induced by intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of D,L-homocysteine thiolactone to rats with actively epileptogenic cobalt lesions in motor cortex. This induced focal motor seizures which secondarily generalized. Control animals not treated with antiepileptic drugs...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0920-1211(88)90023-x

    authors: Walton NY,Treiman DM

    更新日期:1988-03-01 00:00:00

  • The antidepressant drug fluoxetine inhibits persistent sodium currents and seizure-like events.

    abstract::The antidepressant drug fluoxetine (FLX) has been shown to exert antiepileptic effects in several animal models, but mixed preclinical findings and occasional reports of proconvulsant effects have led to hesitation towards its use in epileptic people. Despite being developed as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.03.019

    authors: Igelström KM,Heyward PM

    更新日期:2012-08-01 00:00:00

  • Assessing hippocampal functional reserve in temporal lobe epilepsy: a multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI data.

    abstract::Assessing the functional reserve of key memory structures in the medial temporal lobes (MTL) of pre-surgical patients with intractable temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) remains a challenge. Conventional functional MRI (fMRI) memory paradigms have yet to fully convince of their ability to confidently assess the risk of a po...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2013.01.004

    authors: Bonnici HM,Sidhu M,Chadwick MJ,Duncan JS,Maguire EA

    更新日期:2013-07-01 00:00:00

  • Increased neocortical spiking and surgical outcome after selective amygdalo-hippocampectomy.

    abstract::We studied the electrocorticogram (ECoG) before and immediately after transcortical selective amygdalo-hippocampectomy, prospectively in 13 consecutive patients and retrospectively in three others. ECoG was performed with surface and two depth electrodes inserted through T2 aimed at the amygdala and anterior hippocamp...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0920-1211(93)90080-q

    authors: Cendes F,Dubeau F,Olivier A,Cukiert A,Andermann E,Quesney LF,Andermann F

    更新日期:1993-12-01 00:00:00

  • Long-term mortality in children and young adults with epilepsy--A population-based cohort study.

    abstract:PURPOSE:Epilepsy is associated with an increased mortality. This study estimates the effects of co-morbid disorders on short-term and long-term mortality and presents cause-specific mortality for children and young adults with epilepsy. METHODS:We established a population-based cohort of 1,855,946 children born in Den...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2015.05.001

    authors: Christensen J,Pedersen CB,Sidenius P,Olsen J,Vestergaard M

    更新日期:2015-08-01 00:00:00

  • The impact of lesions and epilepsy on personality and mood in patients with symptomatic epilepsy: a pre- to postoperative follow-up study.

    abstract:PURPOSE:To discern more static and lesion based from more dynamic epilepsy-driven features of depression and personality in focal symptomatic epilepsy, change in personality and mood was examined as a function of focus lateralization and seizure outcome after epilepsy surgery. METHODS:Self-reported personality and dep...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2008.07.011

    authors: Witt JA,Hollmann K,Helmstaedter C

    更新日期:2008-12-01 00:00:00

  • Magnetoencephalography in fronto-parietal opercular epilepsy.

    abstract:OBJECTIVE:To clarify the clinical and neurophysiological profiles of fronto-parietal opercular epilepsy in which epileptic spikes are detected with magnetoencephalography (MEG) but not with scalp electroencephalography (EEG). METHODS:Four patients presented with epileptic spikes localized to the fronto-parietal opercu...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.05.003

    authors: Kakisaka Y,Iwasaki M,Alexopoulos AV,Enatsu R,Jin K,Wang ZI,Mosher JC,Dubarry AS,Nair DR,Burgess RC

    更新日期:2012-11-01 00:00:00

  • Grey matter anomalies in drug-naïve childhood absence epilepsy: A voxel-based morphometry study with MRI at 3.0T.

    abstract:BACKGROUND:Little is known, so far, about the cerebral structural abnormalities in drug-naïve patients with childhood absence epilepsy (CAE). We aimed to investigate regional grey matter (GM) volume differences using voxel-based morphometry (VBM) in patients and closely matched healthy control subjects. METHODS:Twenty...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2016.05.003

    authors: Wang G,Dai ZY,Song W,Wang S,Shi H,Pan P,Chen F,Xu Y,Zhong J

    更新日期:2016-08-01 00:00:00

  • Treatment of experimental status epilepticus with the GABA uptake inhibitor, tiagabine.

    abstract::The potential clinical efficacy of tiagabine for control of status epilepticus was evaluated in an experimental model. Tiagabine was administered to cobalt-lesioned rats in which status epilepticus was induced by injection of homocysteine thiolactone. Tiagabine was effective in controlling status epilepticus in this m...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0920-1211(94)90067-1

    authors: Walton NY,Gunawan S,Treiman DM

    更新日期:1994-12-01 00:00:00

  • Neural functional connectivity in patients with periventricular nodular heterotopia-mediated epilepsy.

    abstract::Periventricular nodular heterotopia (PNH) is characterized by disabled neural migration and is usually associated with epilepsy. Despite awareness of PNH-related epilepsy, little is known about the brain-level underlying functional neural bases. Thus, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to examine the ...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2021.106548

    authors: Liu W,Yue Q,Tian Y,Gong Q,Zhou D,Wu X

    更新日期:2021-01-05 00:00:00

  • Aberrant functional connectivity between motor and language networks in rolandic epilepsy.

    abstract:INTRODUCTION:Rolandic epilepsy (RE) is an idiopathic focal childhood epilepsy with a well-established neuropsychological profile of language impairment. The aim of this study is to provide a functional correlate that links rolandic (sensorimotor) pathology to language problems using functional MRI. MATERIALS AND METHO...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2013.10.008

    authors: Besseling RM,Overvliet GM,Jansen JF,van der Kruijs SJ,Vles JS,Ebus SC,Hofman PA,de Louw AJ,Aldenkamp AP,Backes WH

    更新日期:2013-12-01 00:00:00

  • Involvement of α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in working memory impairment induced by repeated electroconvulsive seizures in rats.

    abstract::A role of cholinergic nervous system in the behavioral impairments induced by repeated ECS is not understood. The α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) agonist ABT-418, but not the α7 nAChR agonist, significantly ameliorated the impairment of spontaneous alternation behavior in the Y-maze test. And, repeated E...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.09.017

    authors: Hidaka N,Suemaru K,Kato Y,Araki H

    更新日期:2013-03-01 00:00:00

  • Interictal HM-PAO SPECT: a routine investigation in patients with medically intractable complex partial seizures?

    abstract::Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is increasingly being used as an adjunctive technique in the localisation of epileptogenic foci prior to surgery. As yet, few studies have been undertaken to establish the clinical associations of areas of reduced cerebral perfusion. Sixty-three consecutive patients (...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0920-1211(92)90010-q

    authors: Duncan S,Gillen G,Adams FG,Duncan R,Brodie MJ

    更新日期:1992-10-01 00:00:00

  • TBC1D24 mutation associated with focal epilepsy, cognitive impairment and a distinctive cerebro-cerebellar malformation.

    abstract::We describe the clinical and radiological features of a family with a homozygous mutation in TBC1D24. The phenotype comprised onset of focal seizures at 2 months with prominent eye-blinking, facial and limb jerking with an oral sensory aura. These were controllable with medication but persisted into adult life. Associ...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2013.02.005

    authors: Afawi Z,Mandelstam S,Korczyn AD,Kivity S,Walid S,Shalata A,Oliver KL,Corbett M,Gecz J,Berkovic SF,Jackson GD

    更新日期:2013-07-01 00:00:00

  • Visualizing Meyer's loop: A comparison of deterministic and probabilistic tractography.

    abstract:BACKGROUND:Diffusion tensor tractography of the anterior extent of the optic radiation - Meyer's loop - prior to temporal lobe resection (TLR) may reduce the risk for postoperative visual field defect. Currently there is no standardized way to perform tractography. OBJECTIVE:To visualize Meyer's loop using determinist...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2014.01.017

    authors: Lilja Y,Ljungberg M,Starck G,Malmgren K,Rydenhag B,Nilsson DT

    更新日期:2014-03-01 00:00:00

  • The uncommon causes of status epilepticus: a systematic review.

    abstract::This paper reports the first systematic review of uncommon causes of status epilepticus reported in the literature between 1990 and 2008. Uncommon causes are defined as those not listed in the main epidemiological studies of status epilepticus. 181 causes were identified. These were easily categorised into 5 specific ...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2010.07.015

    authors: Tan RY,Neligan A,Shorvon SD

    更新日期:2010-10-01 00:00:00

  • Nociceptive threshold in patients with epilepsy.

    abstract::Clinical practitioners have often observed in the course of their daily work that the pain thresholds of epileptic patients seem to differ from those of healthy subjects. These patients can suffer from quite severe traumatic lesions without apparently experiencing any pain. Since they are usually under treatment for e...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/0920-1211(92)90092-8

    authors: Guieu R,Mesdjian E,Roger J,Dano P,Pouget J,Serratrice G

    更新日期:1992-06-01 00:00:00

  • Bupropion-induced convulsions: preclinical evaluation of antiepileptic drugs.

    abstract::Bupropion, a unique, non-nicotine smoking cessation aid and an effective antidepressant, is well known to produce seizures following overdosing in humans. However, the experimental background for the usefulness of antiepileptic drugs in the protection against bupropion-induced convulsions has not been established yet....

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2005.01.006

    authors: Tutka P,Mróz T,Klucha K,Piekarczyk M,Wielosz M

    更新日期:2005-03-01 00:00:00

  • Cardiac changes in epileptic baboons with high-frequency microburst VNS therapy: A pilot study.

    abstract::The epileptic baboon provides a natural model of idiopathic generalized epilepsy and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). We sought to evaluate autonomic differences, including heart rate (HR), heart rate variability (HRV) and corrected QT-duration (QTc) between two epileptic (EB1, EB2) and one control (CB) ba...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2019.106156

    authors: de la Garza MA,Poldiak D,Shade R,Salinas FS,Papanastassiou AM,Szabó CÁ

    更新日期:2019-09-01 00:00:00

  • Assessment of the neuropsychiatric comorbidities in Chinese children with epilepsy using the MINI-KID tool.

    abstract::This study aimed to assess neuropsychiatric comorbidities and analyze risk factors in Chinese children with epilepsy. Children with epilepsy aged between 6 and 16 years from the Children's Hospital of Fudan University were included. Children with asthma and typically developing children were matched for age and gender...

    journal_title:Epilepsy research

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2017.11.011

    authors: Li T,Zhou H,Li Y,Li C,Zhang Y,Zhou Y,Wang Y

    更新日期:2018-02-01 00:00:00