title: Aicardi syndrome: a longitudinal clinical and electroencephalographic study.
abstract: We report clinical and EEG follow-up of 6 children with Aicardi syndrome. Age at seizure onset was < 3 months in 5 patients and 4 months in 1 patient. All patients had spasms, and these continued at time of follow-up in 5 patients. Five patients had seizures other than spasms which disappeared during early infancy. Bilateral independent bursts (BIBs) characteristic of Aicardi syndrome were noted in 4 patients. In 1, BIBs showed suppression-burst patterns. BIBs converted to hypsarrhythmia or multifocal spikes with a tendency to BIBs during sleep. BIBs disappeared completely during both waking and sleeping states between the ages of 3 years 1 month and 4 years 9 months. After BIB disappearance, the EEG of 1 patient showed diffuse slow spike-and-wave complexes most of which appeared asynchronously. At onset, 1 patient had early-infantile epileptic encephalopathy with suppression-burst which evolved initially into West syndrome (WS) and then Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS). The other 3 children also had WS.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child Neurology, Okayama University Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ohtsuka
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Oka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Terasaki
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ohtahara
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000175:diagnosis; D000367:Age Factors; D061085:Agenesis of Corpus Callosum; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005124:Eye Abnormalities / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011379:Prognosis; D012640:Seizures / Q000175:diagnosis; D013036:Spasms, Infantile / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013577:Syndrome