Benign familial infantile convulsions: A clinical study of seven Dutch families
Benign familial infantile convulsions (BFIC) is a recently identified partial epilepsy syndrome with onset between 3 and 12 months of age. We describe the clinical characteristics and outcome of 43 patients with BFIC from six Dutch families and one Dutch-Canadian family and the encountered difficulties in classifying the syndrome. Four families had a pure BFIC phenotype; in two families BFIC was accompanied by paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesias; in one family BFIC was associated with later onset focal epilepsy in older generations. Onset of seizures was between 6 weeks and 10 months, and seizu... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2002 |
Schlagwörter: | Benign familial infantile convulsions / Epilepsy / Genetics / Paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesias |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27065689 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://repub.eur.nl/pub/73475 |
Benign familial infantile convulsions (BFIC) is a recently identified partial epilepsy syndrome with onset between 3 and 12 months of age. We describe the clinical characteristics and outcome of 43 patients with BFIC from six Dutch families and one Dutch-Canadian family and the encountered difficulties in classifying the syndrome. Four families had a pure BFIC phenotype; in two families BFIC was accompanied by paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesias; in one family BFIC was associated with later onset focal epilepsy in older generations. Onset of seizures was between 6 weeks and 10 months, and seizures remitted before the age of 3 years in all patients with BFIC. In all, 29 (67%) of the 43 patients had been treated with anti-epileptic drugs for a certain period of time. BFIC is often not recognized as (hereditary) epilepsy by the treating physician. Seizures often remit shortly after the start of anti-epileptic drugs but, because of the benign course of the syndrome and the spontaneous remission of seizures, patients with low seizure fre