Benign convulsion with mild gastroenteritis and benign familial infantile seizure.
The authors present Japanese siblings of a 6-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy, who concurrently experienced convulsions with mild gastroenteritis. These siblings, their father and paternal grandfather had afebrile seizures that intermittently occurred without symptoms of gastroenteritis and terminated within a few days at their infancy. An underlying genetic factor might not only cause benign familial infantile seizures but it might also confer the susceptibility to the convulsions with mild gastroenteritis in these siblings.
Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. yasunari@med.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Yasunari
Y
Sakai
Ryutaro
R
Kira
Hiroyuki
H
Torisu
Sawa
S
Yasumoto
Mitsumasa
M
Saito
Koichi
K
Kusuhara
Toshiro
T
Hara
D000927:Anticonvulsants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002220:Carbamazepine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012400:Rotavirus Infections / Q000150:complications; D012640:Seizures / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000235:genetics
D000927:Anticonvulsants; D002220:Carbamazepine