title: Absence seizures with myoclonic features in a juvenile Chihuahua dog.
abstract: Long-term video-EEG was recorded for an eight-month-old Chihuahua dog with recurrent episodes of altered behaviour associated with head and nose twitching. Each episode lasted one to two seconds, multiple times per day before treatment. Ictal EEG showed generalised bilaterally synchronous 4 Hz spike-and-wave complexes during the "absence-like" event, along with rhythmically correlated head and nose twitching. We present video documentation of such attacks and discuss their similarities to human epilepsy with myoclonic absences.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Clinical Studies, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada. rpoma@uoguelph.ca
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Poma
authors.forename: Ayako
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ochi
authors.forename: Miguel A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Cortez
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D004285:Dogs; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000662:veterinary; D004831:Epilepsies, Myoclonic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D004832:Epilepsy, Absence / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D008297:Male; D012008:Recurrence; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D014741:Video Recording