Epileptic Disorders
MENUBilaterally independent epileptic spasms in a case of Aicardi syndrome Volume 13, issue 3, Septembre 2011
Authors
Department of Child Neurology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Department of Paediatrics, Kawasaki Rinko General Hospital, Kawasaki, Japan
- Key words: Aicardi syndrome, ictal video-EEG recording, infantile spasms
- DOI : 10.1684/epd.2011.0456
- Page(s) : 326-30
- Published in: 2011
A girl with Aicardi syndrome was observed to have two distinct types of asymmetric epileptic spasms, as detected by ictal video-EEG recording at three months of age. When the two types of spasm concurred, they showed no mutual interactions based on either clinical or EEG aspects. This observation does not support the hypothesis that the brainstem always plays an initiating role in generating spasms. [Published with video sequences]