Panayiotopoulos syndrome: a clinico-electroencephalographic presentation of three cases from Nigeria

Authors

  • Christian Chukwukere Ogoke Department of Clinical Neurophysiology and Child Neurology, Paediatric Neurology Unit, Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, Regions Stroke and Neuroscience Hospital, Mgbirichi, Imo State, Nigeria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/2349-3291.ijcp20190746

Keywords:

Focal aware autonomic seizures, Ictal vomiting, Panayiotopoulos syndrome

Abstract

Panayiotopoulos syndrome (PS) is a common benign, childhood, focal, seizure susceptibility syndrome presenting with mainly focal aware or focal impaired awareness autonomic seizures and autonomic status epilepticus that is under diagnosed in our locality. Increased awareness through reporting will aid diagnosis, reduce misdiagnosis and prevent aggressive and deleterious interventions. The classic clinical and electroencephalographic (EEG) features of three cases are described and the literature reviewed. The aim is to underscore the presence in our locality of this remarkably benign epileptic syndrome that must be differentiated from febrile seizures, encephalopathy, migraine or cardiogenic syncope.

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2019-02-23

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