Sotos syndrome (SS) is an overgrowth syndrome characterized by typical facial appearance, learning disability, and macrocephaly as cardinal diagnostic features. Febrile (FS) and afebrile seizures are reported in 9-50% of cases. There is no evidence that patients with SS and FS later develop epilepsy, and no studies have investigated the electroclinical features and the long-term outcome in epileptic SS patients. The authors report a series of 19 SS patients with FS and/or epilepsy during childhood and a long-term follow-up. More than half of FS evolved to epilepsy. Temporal lobe seizures were recorded in 40% of patients with SS. Seizures were easy to control with common antiepileptic drugs in almost all patients. A careful neurologic evaluation is useful for SS patients, since seizures are an important finding among people with this overgrowth syndrome. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Seizures and epilepsy in Sotos syndrome. analysis of 19 Caucasian patients with long-term follow-up / Nicita, Francesco; Martino, Ruggieri; Agata, Polizzi; Laura, Mauceri; Vincenzo, Salpietro; Silvana, Briuglia; Papetti, Laura; Ursitti, Fabiana; Salvatore, Grosso; Tarani, Luigi; Segni, Maria; Salvatore, Savasta; Parisi, Pasquale; Alberto, Verrotti; Spalice, Alberto. - In: EPILEPSIA. - ISSN 0013-9580. - STAMPA. - 53:6(2012), pp. e102-e105. [10.1111/j.1528-1167.2012.03418.x]
Titolo: | Seizures and epilepsy in Sotos syndrome. analysis of 19 Caucasian patients with long-term follow-up | |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2012 | |
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Citazione: | Seizures and epilepsy in Sotos syndrome. analysis of 19 Caucasian patients with long-term follow-up / Nicita, Francesco; Martino, Ruggieri; Agata, Polizzi; Laura, Mauceri; Vincenzo, Salpietro; Silvana, Briuglia; Papetti, Laura; Ursitti, Fabiana; Salvatore, Grosso; Tarani, Luigi; Segni, Maria; Salvatore, Savasta; Parisi, Pasquale; Alberto, Verrotti; Spalice, Alberto. - In: EPILEPSIA. - ISSN 0013-9580. - STAMPA. - 53:6(2012), pp. e102-e105. [10.1111/j.1528-1167.2012.03418.x] | |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11573/459496 | |
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