Fixation-off-sensitive epilepsy with absences and absence status: video-EEG documentation.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
A 33-year-old woman of borderline normal intelligence had catamenial absence status epilepticus and absences since early teens, diagnosed as temporal lobe epilepsy. Clinical and video-EEG evaluation documented that she suffers from a rare epileptic condition manifested with fixation-off sensitivity, absences, absence status, and infrequent generalized tonic-clonic seizures.
Medical subject headings
- Epilepsy
- Epilepsy, Absence
- Fixation, Ocular