• 1. Department of Neural endocrinology VEEG room, Qilu Children's Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan 250022, China;
  • 2. Pediatric Medical Centre Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan 250000, China;
SUN Ruopeng, Email: ruopeng4813@sina.com
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ObjectiveTo study the clinical and EEG features, therapeutic response and prognosis of eyelid myoclonia-nonconvulsive status epilepticus (EM-NCSE) in children.MethodsCollected the clinical and EEG data of 3 children with EM-NCSE that were diagnosed in department of neurology in Qilu Children Hospital of Shandong university during the January in 2015 to August in 2016.Analysed the therapeutic response to antiepletic drugs(AEDs).ResultsAmong the three children, there were 2 girls and 1 boy.The age at the onset of the disease was from 6 to 10 years old.The average age of them is 8.67 years old.The clinical manifestations include mental confusion, dysphoria, winking and scrolling up the eyes.The typical vedio electroencephalography (VEEG) in the patients showed 3~6 Hz generalized spike and waves and polyspikes burst, especially in the frontal and the anterior temporal region.In addition, the eye closure and intermittent photic stimulation helped to induce discharges and clinical events as eyelid myoclonia (EM).ConclusionsEM-NCSE is one of the idiopathic and generalized epileptic disease and characterized by EM.Video EEG monitoring plays an important role in the diagnosis of this disease.The drugs of choice for treatment was diazepam.When the event was controlled, AEDs were effective for the following therapy.

Citation: GAO Zaifen, LUO Junxia, CHEN Yehong, HU Wandong, CHEN Chuanmei, QI Fang, SUN Ruopeng. The clinical features and Video-EEG of Eyelid myoclonia-nonconvulsive status epilepticus in children. Journal of Epilepsy, 2017, 3(3): 199-203. doi: 10.7507/2096-0247.20170030 Copy

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