Early onset benign occipital epilepsy, Panayiotopoulos type (Q98311): Difference between revisions

An epilepsy syndrome usually presenting in early childhood with focal seizures with autonomic features, commonly vomiting, and motor features such as eye deviation. Seizures are often prolonged. The EEG commonly shows stereotypic high amplitude focal spikes and may be activated by sleep. Only 25% of cases have frequent seizures. Remission usually occurs within a few years. An electroencephalogram is normal in 10% of patients. In 90% of patients there are occipital spikes which often shift from one region to another in sequential EEGs. A polygenetic cause is likely.