CH15: EPILEPSY Flashcards
how many percent of patients with absence are completely motionless during the attack (p. 336)
10%
For absence, rarely seizures begin before 4 years of age or after puberty (p. 336)
TRUE
Difference between childhood and adolescence absence seizure (p. 336)
Persistence into adulthood
EEG finding in absence seizur (p. 336)
Generalized 3 per second spike and wave
EEG finding in atypical absence seizure (p. 337)
Long runs of slow spike and wave activity
EEG finding in Lennox- Gestaut syndrome (p. 337)
1-2 Jz spike and wave
Lennox Gastaut preceded by this condition in early life (p. 337)
Hypsarrhythmia
Hypsarrhythmia+ mental development arrest + hypsarrhythmia (p. 337)
West syndrome
most common form of idiopathic generalized epilepsy in older children and young adults (p. 337)
Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
EEG findings in JME (p. 337)
4-6 Hz irregular polyspike activity
JME impairs intelligence (p. 337)
FALSE
Drug of choice for JME (p. 337)
Valproic Acid
Drug of choice for JME, but child- bearing age (p. 337)
Levetiracetam, Lamotrigine
Drugs that exaggerate seizures in JME (p. 337)
Carbamazepine and Phenytoin
Olfactory hallucination localization (p.339)
Inferior and medial part, temporal lobe
Gustatory hallucination localization (p.339)
Insula and parietal operculum
Most frequent reported color during visual seizure (p. 339)
Red
Auditory hallucination localization (p. 339)
Superior temporal convulsion
Vertiginous sensation localization (p. 339)
Superoposterior temporal region
pathologic findings of Infantile spasms (p. 343)
Cortical dysgenesis
common precipitant of Febrile seizure beacause of its tendency to cause high fever (p. 344)
Herpesvirus 6
EEG findings in epilepsia partialis continue (p. 345)
repetitive slow- wave or sharp waves or spikes over the central areas of the contralateral hemisphere
EPC- resistant or not to treatment? (p. 345)
RESISTANT TO TREATMENT
EPC + progressive hemiparesis (p. 345)
Rasmussen Syndrome
Antibodies in Rasmussen encephalitis (p. 345)
Anti- GluR3
A single EEG tracing obtained during the interictal state is abnormal to some degree in what percentage of patients (p. 348)
30% to 50%
gross and microscopic CNS findings in brains of patients with epilepsy (p. 349)
NORMAL
loss of neurons in what part of the hippocampus in MTS (p. 349)
CA1
overall concordance of primary epilepsies (p. 349)
70% monozugotic, 30% dizygotic
problematic channel in AD nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (p. 350)
nicotinic acetalcholine receptor subinit
problematic channel in generalized epiilepsy with febrile seizures plus (p. 350)
neuronal sodium channel