Myoclonic epilepsy of late onset in trisomy 21
We report the case of a patient with trisomy 21 (T21) with late onset epilepsy. The electro-clinical features were of myoclonic jerks on awakening and generalised tonic clonic seizures, with generalised spike and wave on EEG, and a progressive dementia. As familial Alzheimer's dementia and progressive myoclonic epilepsy (Unverricht-Lundborg type) are both linked to the chromosome 21, this case may represent a distinct progressive myoclonic epilepsy related to T21.
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| Language: | English |
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Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO
1995
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| Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X1995000500014 |
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