The choice of an antiepileptic drug (AED) in patients with epilepsy is mainly based on efficacy and safety of each drug. However, these criteria of drug selection should be further evaluated according to the epileptic syndromes, and adjusted to the sex and age of the patient. Unfortunately, very few studies have been conducted based on these latter criteria. We conducted a survey on the managem...

Background: In 2017, the international league against epilepsy (ILAE) classification of epilepsies described “genetic generalized epilepsies”, which contained “idiopathic epilepsies”. This study delineates four syndromes comprising IGEs: childhood absence epilepsy, juvenile myoclonic (JME), and with tonic-clonic seizures alone (GTCA). JME patients usually present seizures, GTCA GTCS only after ...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seizure.2015.08.002 1059-1311/ 2015 British Epilepsy Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights re A 44-year-old woman with epilepsy since youth and no previous cardiovascular event, was admitted to the epilepsy unit for a thorough study with video-EEG. She usually had several complex partial seizures every month, although occasionally presented generalized e...

Benign myoclonic epilepsy in infancy (BMEI) is a rare syndrome included among idiopathic generalized epilepsies (IGE) and syndromes with age-related onset. Recently, it has been shown that a few patients with BMEI later had other epilepsy types mainly IGE but never childhood absence epilepsy (CAE). We report a patient who at 11 months of age showed isolated myoclonic jerks occurring several tim...