Abstract
Seizures are a frequent acute neurological event in the neonatal period. Up to 12 to 18% of all seizures in newborns are due to perinatal stroke and up to 39% of affected children can then develop epilepsy in childhood. We report the case of a young patient who presented stroke-related seizures in the neonatal period and then developed focal symptomatic epilepsy at 15 years of age, and in whom the epileptic focus was found to co-localize with the site of his ischemic brain lesion. Such a prolonged silent period before onset of remote symptomatic epilepsy has not previously been reported. This case suggests that newborns with seizures due to a neonatal stroke are at higher risk of epilepsy and that the epileptogenic process in these subjects can last longer than a decade.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 49-53 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Functional Neurology |
Volume | 32 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 1 2017 |
Keywords
- Children
- EEG
- Epilepsy
- Neonatal seizures
- Perinatal stroke
- Seizure
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Neuroscience(all)
- Clinical Neurology