Eyelid myoclonia with absences (Jeavons syndrome): still an overlooked epilepsy syndrome. Comments to Covanis review in this issue of Journal of Epileptology
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Eyelid myoclonia with typical absences: an epilepsy syndrome.
Five unrelated patients are described with the clinical and electrical features of eyelid myoclonia with absences (EMA). In this syndrome brief, typical absences occur with rapid eyelid myoclonia associated with retropulsive movements of the eyeballs and occasionally of the head. The seizures are of shorter duration than in childhood absence epilepsy, and are accompanied by less profound impair...
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We read with interest the paper by Destina Yalcin et al. describing four patients with eyelid myoclonia associated with absences, myoclonic jerks and generalized tonic—clonic seizures (GTCS), and showing electroclinical features compatible with the diagnosis of either eyelid myoclonia with absences (EMA) and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME). The authors suggest that EMA and JME are dynamic syn...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epileptology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2300-0147
DOI: 10.1515/joepi-2015-0029