[Relevance of electroencephalography in infants presenting to an emergency department who have had an apparent life-threatening event].

Objectives: Neurological causes are common diagnoses for apparent life-threatening events in infants. The objective of this study was to evaluate the relevancy of electroencephalography performed after an apparent life-threatening event.

Material And Methods: A retrospective study was conducted in a children's hospital over a 1-year period.

Difference in anxiety symptoms between children and their parents facing a first seizure or epilepsy.

Many studies have shown that anxiety disorders are common in children with epilepsy. We explored symptoms of anxiety simultaneously in children and their parents. We conducted a cross-sectional study using the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale in children and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Adult in parents.

Ketogenic diet for infantile spasms refractory to first-line treatments: an open prospective study.

Unlabelled: Ketogenic diet (KD) is an efficient treatment for refractory epilepsy including infantile spasms (IS). We evaluated the effect of a KD to treat IS as a third-line treatment, after vigabatrin (VGB) and steroids. We evaluated the efficacy and the tolerability of KD in IS using the rate of seizure-free patients at 1 month.

Malignant migrating partial seizures of infancy controlled by stiripentol and clonazepam.

The syndrome of malignant migrating partial seizures of infancy (MMPSI) is characterized by early onset of multiple seizure types and overall poor prognosis. Seizures are markedly drug resistant and few reports have suggested the efficacy of some antiepileptic drugs. We report one case of MMPSI in which prolonged seizure control is obtained with an association of clonazepam, levetiracetam and stiripentol, confirming thus the possibility of complete sustained seizure control in this epileptic syndrome.

Hemiconvulsion-hemiplegia-epilepsy syndrome: current understandings.

Hemiconvulsion-Hemiplegia (HH) syndrome is an uncommon consequence of prolonged focal febrile convulsive seizures in infancy and early childhood. It is characterized by the occurrence of prolonged clonic seizures with unilateral predominance occurring in a child and followed by the development of hemiplegia. Neuroradiological studies showed unilateral edematous swelling of the epileptic hemisphere at the time of initial status epilepticus (SE).