title: The Emperor Dom Pedro II: his convulsive seizures when a boy.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Dom Pedro II, the Prince Heir and Emperor under regency, in a delicate period of the construction of the Brazilian nation, had convulsive seizures.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the convulsive seizures and related syndromes of Dom Pedro II and his family, besides the physicians in charge of the health care.
  
  
  METHODS
  Narrative review based on primary and secondary sources.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The scattered and self-limited convulsive seizures associated with physical and mental integrity favored a benign prognosis. Dom Pedro and his family presented rich history of epileptic seizures and febrile convulsion. This variety resembles the diagnosis of generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus that seems to be a combination of several syndromes with shared genetic susceptibility.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Neurologia Deolindo Couto, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Marleide da Mota
authors.initials: Mda M
authors.lastname: Gomes
authors.forename: Lucia M C
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Fontenelle
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D004829:Epilepsy, Generalized / Q000266:history*; D005197:Famous Persons; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease / Q000266:history; D049672:History, 19th Century; D003294:Seizures, Febrile / Q000266:history*