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JOURNAL OF CHILD NEUROLOGY
Volume 28, Issue 7, Pages 937-941Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0883073812451497
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West syndrome; late hypsarrhythmia; epileptic encephalopathy; electroencephalograms; CDKL5
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CDKL5 mutations cause severe epilepsy in infancy with subsequent epileptic encephalopathy. As yet, few studies report on long-term observations in patients with CDKL5-related epileptic encephalopathy. In this study, we describe the evolution of the epilepsy phenotype and the electroencephalographic (EEG) features in 4 patients during a maximum observation period of 22 years. All 4 patients had epilepsy starting with focal seizures in the first 3 months of life, evolving to epileptic spasms between the ages of 2 and 6 years and later on to tonic seizures. In 3 patients, epilepsy was resistant to antiepileptic therapy. Although there was no common EEG pattern in all patients, late hypsarrhythmia until the age of 9 years was observed in 2 patients. CDKL5-related epileptic encephalopathies are a group of refractory seizure disorders starting in early infancy. The phenomenon of late hypsarrhythmia may help define a subgroup of patients with severe and adverse outcomes.
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