The Coexistence of Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy and Partial Epilepsy

Investigating Relationship of positive Family Historypattern and the incidence of idiopathic epilepsy in patients with epilepsy

The electroencephalogram of idiopathic generalized epilepsy.

Idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) is classified into several subsyndromes based on clinical and electroencephalography (EEG) features. The EEG signature of IGE is bisynchronous, symmetric, and generalized spike-wave complex; although focal, irregular, and so called "fragments" of discharges are not uncommon. Other characteristic EEG features include polyspikes, polyspike-wave discharges, oc...

Coexistence of focal and idiopathic generalized epilepsy in the same patient population

PURPOSE To review the clinical, electrographic, radiological, and pathological findings of patients with coexistent idiopathic generalized and partial epilepsy syndromes. METHODS We performed a medical record review and a phone interview with all patients hospitalized to the Cleveland Clinic epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) between 1992 and 2002 who fulfilled clinical and EEG criteria of coexis...

Immunological Correlates of Adult Onset Idiopathic Generalized Tonic-clonic Epilepsy before and after Sodium Valproate Treatment

Objective: To investigate possible immunological humoral correlates in newly diagnosed adult-onset generalized tonic-clonic epilepsy among Iranian patients before and after sodium valproate treatment.   Patients and Methods: 72 adult patients with newly diagnosed idiopathic generalized tonic-clonic epilepsy were recruited. Serum antinuclear antibodies (ANA), anti-cardiolipin antibodies (aCL), a...

Idiopathic generalized epilepsy of late onset

Most idiopathic generalized epilepsies have an onset in childhood or adolescence, with a moderate second incidence peak in the presenium predominantly in women. This study addressed the question of a later onset. The available literature and the records of four personal data sets (two prospective incidence surveys of epileptic seizures, one prevalence study of epilepsy, and one clinical series ...