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Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy Presenting with Neurocognitive Impairment: A Case Report

Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is a genetically and clinically diverse disorder which is characterized by myoclonic jerks, usually after awakening from sleep. It affects both genders equally and manifests during the second decade of life. The various precipitating factors include stress, light, s...

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Autores principales: Mahesar, Sarfraz, Akbar, Hira F, Abid, Husnain, Sana, Rabia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5935437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29736355
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2271
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author Mahesar, Sarfraz
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description Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is a genetically and clinically diverse disorder which is characterized by myoclonic jerks, usually after awakening from sleep. It affects both genders equally and manifests during the second decade of life. The various precipitating factors include stress, light, sleep deprivation, and alcohol. A history of morning clumsiness supported by typical electroencephalography (EEG) findings, together with a normal clinical examination all point towards a diagnosis of JME. We present the case of a nine-year-old girl who presented with cognitive dysfunction in addition to myoclonic jerks. She had normal brain imaging and her labs were negative for other causes of dementia. Her EEG findings revealed polyspikes with normal background activity. She was treated with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) for control of seizures.
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spelling pubmed-59354372018-05-07 Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy Presenting with Neurocognitive Impairment: A Case Report Mahesar, Sarfraz Akbar, Hira F Abid, Husnain Sana, Rabia Cureus Neurology Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is a genetically and clinically diverse disorder which is characterized by myoclonic jerks, usually after awakening from sleep. It affects both genders equally and manifests during the second decade of life. The various precipitating factors include stress, light, sleep deprivation, and alcohol. A history of morning clumsiness supported by typical electroencephalography (EEG) findings, together with a normal clinical examination all point towards a diagnosis of JME. We present the case of a nine-year-old girl who presented with cognitive dysfunction in addition to myoclonic jerks. She had normal brain imaging and her labs were negative for other causes of dementia. Her EEG findings revealed polyspikes with normal background activity. She was treated with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) for control of seizures. Cureus 2018-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5935437/ /pubmed/29736355 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2271 Text en Copyright © 2018, Mahesar et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy Presenting with Neurocognitive Impairment: A Case Report
title Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy Presenting with Neurocognitive Impairment: A Case Report
title_full Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy Presenting with Neurocognitive Impairment: A Case Report
title_fullStr Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy Presenting with Neurocognitive Impairment: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy Presenting with Neurocognitive Impairment: A Case Report
title_short Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy Presenting with Neurocognitive Impairment: A Case Report
title_sort juvenile myoclonic epilepsy presenting with neurocognitive impairment: a case report
topic Neurology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5935437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29736355
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2271
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