Fixation-off-sensitive epilepsy with absences and absence status: video-EEG documentation.
A 33-year-old woman of borderline normal intelligence had catamenial absence status epilepticus and absences since early teens, diagnosed as temporal lobe epilepsy. Clinical and video-EEG evaluation documented that she suffers from a rare epileptic condition manifested with fixation-off sensitivity, absences, absence status, and infrequent generalized tonic-clonic seizures.
Agathonikou
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Department of Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsies, St. Thomas' Hospital, London, England.
Koutroumanidis
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Panayiotopoulos
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D000328:Adult; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004832:Epilepsy, Absence / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004830:Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D005403:Fixation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008598:Menstruation; D013226:Status Epilepticus / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D014743:Videotape Recording; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology