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Diagnosis of Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1991 Factors contributing to the misdiagnosis of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) in an epilepsy clinic have been examined in 70 patients at the Division of Neurology, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
J Gordon Millichap
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5,10-Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase Deficiency and Myoclonic Epilepsy
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2014 Investigators from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, and McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CA, report an adolescent learning-disabled girl who presented at age 14 years with an epilepsy syndrome initially diagnosed as juvenile myoclonic ...
J Gordon Millichap, John J Millichap
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Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. [PDF]
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1988 The clinical and electroencephalographic features of 10 adolescents with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy are presented. The mean age on onset was 12.3 years. Myoclonic jerks, predominantly on awakening, occurred in all 10 and were associated with infrequent generalised tonic-clonic seizures in nine. Five had first degree relatives with seizures.
M J, Clement, S J, Wallace
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Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2005 A genome-wide scan of a large family with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME), seen at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, was conducted to test an hypothesis that 2 loci, one predisposing to generalized tonic clonic seizures (GTCS) and
J Gordon Millichap
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Neurosciences (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), 2010 \s=b\ Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy is a common idiopathic generalized epileptic syndrome that occurs in 5% to 10% of patients with epilepsy. Despite this, it is still frequently unrecognized and misdiagnosed, even as epilepsy of focal onset. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy usually responds well to treatment with appropriate anticonvulsants, and misdiagnosis
P.V. Motika, D.C. Bergen
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Long-Term Follow-Up of Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2006 A population of 257 juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) patients and family members was prospectively evaluated in a study at UCLA School of Medicine and international centers.
J Gordon Millichap
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Epidemiology of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
Неврология, нейропсихиатрия, психосоматика, 2017 The article presents information on the definition of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) and current epidemiological data concerning its prevalence in Russia and foreign countries.Objective: to study the available publications on the epidemiological ...
O. S. Shilkina, N. A. Schnaider
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Treatment of Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy [PDF]
CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics, 2008 Drug treatment of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is mainly based on clinical experience and prospective and retrospective studies, with little evidence from randomized clinical trials. There are almost no head‐to‐head comparisons between old and new antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). Valproate is the drug of the first choice in men with JME.
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Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: neurophysiological aspects
Неврология, нейропсихиатрия, психосоматика, 2018 The review presents an update on the electroencephalographic characteristics and neurophysiology of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) in Russia and foreign countries.Materials and methods.
O. S. Shilkina +3 more
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Long-Term Outcome of Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2014 Investigators at Epilepsy Centers in Berlin, Germany, performed a retrospective study of seizure outcome in 66 patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) after a mean follow-up time of 44.6 years (20-69 years); 59.1% of patients remained seizure ...
J Gordon Millichap
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