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EPILEPSY & BEHAVIOR CASE REPORTS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages 16-19Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebcr.2016.11.001
Keywords
Generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS(+)); Generalized tonic-clonic seizures; Focal seizures with impaired consciousness; Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [23791201, 24249060, 151402548, 25670481]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), a MEXT-supported program from the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities [221S0002, 25129708]
- Japan Agency for Medical Research and development (AMED) [15ek0109038a]
- Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare [H26-Nanji-Ippan-051, H26-Nanji-Ippan-049, 24-7, 27-5]
- Joint Usage/Research Program of the Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
- Mitsubishi Foundation
- Takeda Scientific Foundation
- Kobayashi Magobei Foundation
- Kurozumi medical foundation
- Japan Epilepsy Research Foundation grant
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15H02548, 16K15532] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS(+)) is characterized by childhood-onset epilepsy syndrome. It involves febrile seizures and a variety of afebrile epileptic seizure types within the same pedigree with autosomal-dominant inheritance. Approximately 10% of individuals with GEFS(+) harbor SCN1A, a gene mutation in one of the voltage-gated sodium channel subunits. Considerably less common are focal epilepsies including focal seizures with impaired consciousness. We report vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) in a 6-year-old girl with GEFS+ who exhibited drug-resistant generalized tonic-clonic seizures and focal seizures with impaired consciousness. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license
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