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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-5-1
pubmed:abstractText
A longitudinal clinicoelectrophysiologic study was undertaken of a 15-year 2-month-old girl with Lafora disease who was diagnosed by skin biopsy and an immunohistochemical method with antisera against Lafora bodies. From age 10 years 5 months, 4 months after onset, EEG disclosed progressive deterioration of background activity and incremental increase in epileptic discharges. Photosensitivity was unique: Occipital spikes and diffuse spike-wave discharges were provoked by low-frequency repetitive photic stimuli but without elicitation of myoclonic seizures. Photosensitivity completely disappeared after age 13 years 10 months. High-voltage somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) and high-voltage flash visual evoked potentials (F-VEPs) were seen before age 13. After age 13, progressive prolongation of I-III and I-V interpeak latencies of auditory brainstem responses (ABRs), progressive prolongation of latencies of photoevoked eyelid microvibrations, delayed latencies of pattern-reversal visual evoked potentials, and a decrease in the V/I amplitude ratio of ABRs and the previously high F-VEP amplitudes were observed.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0013-9580
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
31
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
194-201
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Longitudinal clinicoelectrophysiologic study of a case of Lafora disease proven by skin biopsy.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Child Neurology, Okayama University Medical School, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports