Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes Flashcards
Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes
Neonatal epileptic seizures - Demography
High in preterm infants. Up to 10%.
Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes
Benign familial neonatal seizures - Demography
Rare.
Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes
Benign neonatal seizures - Demography
7% of all neonatal seizures
Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes
Early myoclonic encephalopathy - Demography
Rare. Boys and Girls are equally effective.
Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes
Early infantile epileptic encephalopathy with suppression burst (Ohtahara syndrome) - Demography
Rare. Slight male predominance.
Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes
Neonatal epileptic seizures - Age range of onset
80% occur in the first 1 or 2 days during the first week of life.
Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes
Benign familial neonatal seizures - Age range of onset
Seizures mainly on the second or third day of life
Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes
Benign neonatal seizures - Age range of onset
Usually between days four and six. This syndrome is synonym with fifth day fits. Boys are affected slightly more than girls
Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes
Early myoclonic encephalopathy - Age range of onset
Usually starts in the first days of life; sometimes immediately after birth. Majority starts before 10 days of age.
Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes
Early infantile epileptic encephalopathy with suppression burst (Ohtahara syndrome) - Age range of onset
Onset is mainly around the first 10 days of life; sometimes within the uterus or up to three months after birth.
Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes
Neonatal epileptic seizures - Semiology
Usually subtle; and difficult to recognize from normal behavior patterns. Seizures are brief and repetitive. Frequent autonomic manifestations such as changing heart rate or respiratory rate
Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes
Benign familial neonatal seizures - Semiology
Occur in otherwise normal neonates. Seizures are brief – 1-2 min; 20-30/day. Usually start with tonic motor activity; posturing and apnea
Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes
Benign neonatal seizures - Semiology
Repetitive lengthy seizure that constitutes a clonic status epilepticus which occurs in a otherwise normal full-term neonate. The median time is about 20 hours. Tonic seizures are incompatible with this syndrome
Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes
Early myoclonic encephalopathy - Semiology
Triad of intractable seizures: myoclonus; followed by simple focal seizures; followed later by tonic epileptic spasms. Erratic (shifting from one part of the body to another in the random fashion) myoclonus that are nearly continuous and may affect a finger; corner of the mouth; toe; etc.
Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes
Early infantile epileptic encephalopathy with suppression burst (Ohtahara syndrome) - Semiology
Electrical clinical manifestations of tonic spasms and burst suppression patterns during sleep and waking states. Tonic seizures are brief and occur in clusters that can repeat several times a day. Some patients may have focal motor clonic seizures. Myoclonic seizures are rare.
Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes
Neonatal epileptic seizures - Etiology
Several possibilities. Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy accounts for 80% of cases
Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes
Benign familial neonatal seizures - Etiology
Autosomal dominant channelopathy with high degree of penetrance. Mutations in the voltage gated potassium channel subunit genes KCNQ2 or KCNQ3. Both form a potassium channel that determines the M – current. Note – mutations in the sodium channel SCN2A are specific to benign familial neonatal – infantile seizures
Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes
Benign neonatal seizures - Etiology
Unknown. Zinc deficiency has been postulated
Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes
Early myoclonic encephalopathy - Etiology
Multi-factorial disease. Inborn errors of metabolism are the most common causes: non-ketotic hyperglycinemia; propionic aciduria; methylmalonic acidemia; glyceric acidemia; xanthine oxidase deficiency; menkes dz; Zellweger sd.; molybdenium cofactor deficiency.
Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes
Early infantile epileptic encephalopathy with suppression burst (Ohtahara syndrome) - Etiology
Malformations of cortical development. Examples are hemimegalencephaly; focal dysplasias; Aicardi syndrome; agenesis of mammillary bodies; olivary dentate dysplasia. There are no familial cases. This syndrome is likely to be the earliest age-related specific epileptic reaction of the developing brain to heterogeneous insults
Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes
Neonatal epileptic seizures - Genetic testing or metabolic screening
None
Neonatal Epileptic Syndromes
Benign familial neonatal seizures - Genetic testing or metabolic screening
Can be performed; but expensive and not routinely available