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Absence seizures with myoclonic features in a juvenile Chihuahua dog
Epileptic Disorders. Volume 12, Number 2, 138-41, June 2010, Clinical commentary with video sequences
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Author(s) : Roberto Poma, Ayako Ochi, Miguel A Cortez
Summary : Long-term video-EEG was recorded for an eight-month-old Chihuahua dog with recurrent episodes of altered behaviour associated with head and nose twitching. Each episode lasted one to two seconds, multiple times per day before treatment. Ictal EEG showed generalised bilaterally synchronous 4 Hz spike-and-wave complexes during the “absence-like” event, along with rhythmically correlated head and nose twitching. We present video documentation of such attacks and discuss their similarities to human epilepsy with myoclonic absences. [Published with video sequences]
Keywords : canine, myoclonic absence epilepsy, video-EEG, seizures

Absence seizures with myoclonic features in a juvenile Chihuahua dog