Clinical Analysis of Childhood Occipital Lobe Epilepsy in 43 Taiwanese Patients

Clinical dissection of childhood occipital epilepsy of Gastaut and prognostic implication

“…In past years, the electroclinical characteristics of COE-G have been described by several studies [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15], but in the literature there are no studies that have evaluated the response to antiepileptic treatment and the long-term outcome. Moreover, other idiopathic epilepsy syndromes can be associated with COE-G but it is not clear whether this association may or may not affect the long-term prognosis of COE-G.…”

Episodic vomiting and headache in children: consider occipital epilepsy

“…Up to 20% of children with similar seizure semiology to PS have heterogeneous cerebral pathology, such as tumours and cerebral malformations 2,4 . These children usually have abnormal neurological signs or cognitive function, and there is a greater incidence of visual hallucinations and additional non‐autonomic seizures 6 . However, it can be difficult to differentiate between PS and symptomatic occipital epilepsy on clinical grounds only as illustrated by this case at initial presentation.…”

“…However, it can be difficult to differentiate between PS and symptomatic occipital epilepsy on clinical grounds only as illustrated by this case at initial presentation. In addition, there are no significant distinguishing features on EEG between the symptomatic group and PS 6 . We therefore believe that all children with a clinical and EEG diagnosis of PS should undergo MRI of the brain.…”

“…Antiepileptic drug therapy is reserved for those with multiple recurrent seizures. The prognosis of PS is excellent, with remittance of seizures in 87–100%, 1–6 years after onset 2,6 …”

Türk Çocuklarında İdiopatik Çocukluk Çağı Oksipital Lob Epilepsisi

“…Gokçay et al 7 reported male dominance in BEOP cases, whereas Du et al 8 noted female to dominance. We found male dominance in our both groups patients with CEOP.…”