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Clinical analysis of catastrophic epilepsy in infancy and early childhood: Results of the Far-East Asia Catastrophic Epilepsy (FACE) study group

Authors
 Hirokazu Oguni  ;  Taisuke Otsuki  ;  Katsuhiro Kobayashi  ;  Yushi Inoue  ;  Eiji Watanabe  ;  Kenji Sugai  ;  Akio Takahashi  ;  Shinichi Hirose  ;  Shigeki Kameyama  ;  Hitoshi Yamamoto  ;  Shinichiro Hamano  ;  Koichi Baba  ;  Hiroshi Baba  ;  Seung-Chyul Hong  ;  Heung-Dong Kim  ;  Hoon-Chul Kang  ;  Guoming Luan  ;  Tai-Tong Wong 
Citation
 BRAIN & DEVELOPMENT, Vol.35(8) : 786-792, 2013 
Journal Title
BRAIN & DEVELOPMENT
ISSN
 0387-7604 
Issue Date
2013
MeSH
Age of Onset ; Brain/physiopathology* ; Child, Preschool ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Electroencephalography/methods ; Epilepsy/etiology ; Epilepsy/physiopathology* ; Female ; Humans ; Infant ; Male
Keywords
Catastrophic epilepsy ; Classification ; Epilepsy surgery ; Etiology ; West syndrome ; Young children
Abstract
Purpose: We studied children younger than 6 years old who developed catastrophic epilepsy and were registered in the FACE study group to clarify their clinical characteristics and prevalence of seizure as well as epilepsy types. Subjects: Subjects were prospectively recruited from children with epilepsy who satisfied the following criteria and underwent intensive examination between 2009 and 2012 in 14 collaborative centers: (1) younger than 6 years old and (2) more than 10 seizures/month refractory to all available medical treatments including ACTH therapy, leading to significant psychosocial morbidity. Methods: We analyzed epilepsy onset age, predominant seizure type, etiology, neuropsychological findings, and syndromic classification according to the pre-determined registration format. Results: A total of 314 children were enrolled in this study. Epilepsy onset age in 239 cases (80%) was younger than 12 months. The most frequent seizure type was epileptic spasms (ES), followed by generalized tonic seizures (GTS), which accounted for 42% and 20%, respectively. West syndrome (WS) was the most frequent epileptic syndrome and accounted for 37%, followed by unclassified epilepsy at 21%, neocortical epilepsy at 19%, Lennox–Gastaut syndrome at 12%, Dravet syndrome at 4%, Rasmussen syndrome at 2%, and others. The two most frequent causes of epilepsy were cortical dysplasia and chromosomal anomalies, as shown in 16% and 6%, respectively. However, the etiology of nearly one half of all patients remained unknown. Psychomotor development was already worse than a moderate degree in 62% of subjects at the first examination. Conclusion: The highest proportion of catastrophic epilepsy was WS and its related syndromes featuring ES and GTS, followed by neocortical epilepsy, whose psychomotor development was significantly retarded at examinations.
Full Text
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0387760413001034
DOI
10.1016/j.braindev.2013.02.004
Appears in Collections:
1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Pediatrics (소아과학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Kang, Hoon Chul(강훈철) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3659-8847
Kim, Heung Dong(김흥동) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8031-7336
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/88274
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