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Dravet syndrome
"Dravet syndrome" (DS) previously named severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI), or epilepsy with polymorphic seizures, is a rare disorder characterized by an early, severe, generalized, epileptic encephalopathy.DS is characterized by febrile and afebrile seizures beginning in the 1st year of life followed by different types of seizures (either focal or generalized), which are typically res...
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BACKGROUND Dravet syndrome (DS) is currently considered as an epileptic encephalopathy, a condition in which epilepsy causes deterioration or developmental delay but preliminary data suggested that cognitive course may worsen independently from epilepsy. Our objective was to prospectively analyze the neuropsychological features in a large cohort of DS patients and its relationships with epileps...
متن کاملDravet Syndrome
Dravet syndrome (DS) is one of the refractory epileptic encephalopathies [3], one of the spectra of severe myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy (SMEI) which occurs in otherwise healthy individuals [2]. Its incidence has been estimated to be 1 in 2000040000. It is more common in males than in females. Positive family history is encountered in one fourth of the cases. DS Usually started by clonic/tonic-...
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Investigators from various university hospitals, reference medical institutions and epilepsy centers, and the national institute for public health and environment in the Netherlands, studied the effect of vaccinations on seizure risk and disease course in patients with Dravet syndrome (DS).
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Researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle studied selective heterozygous and homozygous deletions of the voltage gated sodium channel (Nav1.1) in parvalbumin (PV) or somato-statin (SST) expressing interneurons.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Neurology Briefs
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2166-6482,1043-3155
DOI: 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-26-2-1