Symptomatic occipital lobe epilepsy following neonatal hypoglycemia.

This study reports on the clinical, electrophysiologic, and neuroradiologic aspects of patients with epilepsy secondary to neonatal hypoglycemia. Fifteen patients with epilepsy and/or posterior cerebral lesions, and neonatal hypoglycemia were studied in the epilepsy clinic between February 1990 and March 2003. The mean age was 12 years.

Idiopathic occipital and absence epilepsies appearing in the same children.

Our aim is to report the association between idiopathic occipital epilepsy and childhood absence epilepsy in the same children. Six children met the diagnostic criteria for both idiopathic occipital epilepsy and childhood absence epilepsy, five patients with idiopathic occipital epilepsy Gastaut type and another with Panayiotopoulos type. All patients were monitored for 2 to 10 years with repeated electroencephalograms when awake and during sleep.