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7746223

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-6-15
pubmed:abstractText
Six patients (3M, 3F, mean age 17.3 yrs) presenting different types of evolution from disorders of arousal to epilepsy are described. All subjects during their childhood had been diagnosed in a sleep center as affected by sleep-walking (three cases) and night terrors (the other three). Successively they developed nocturnal events different from those previously exhibited and consisting of clear epileptic seizures, generalized tonic-clonic in one case and complex partial in five cases. Nocturnal monitoring allowed recognition of clear interictal paroxysmal activity in three patients, while ictal events were recorded in the remaining three. Anticonvulsant treatment (carbamazepine in five patients, phenytoin in one patient) led to the resolution of the ictal events in all cases. The fact that both disorders of arousal and epilepsy are strictly related to sleep and often share common features such as age range of onset and precipitating factors, suggests the existence of common functional substrates identifiable in constitutional maturative and biologic factors. The possible occurrence of seizures in subjects exhibiting parasomnia during their childhood has to be considered in patients with familial history of epilepsy and in all doubtful cases.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0987-7053
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
25
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
19-27
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Epileptic seizures in subjects previously affected by disorders of arousal.
pubmed:affiliation
Clinica Neurologica I, Università di Messina, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports