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Dravet's syndrome

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Generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus Dravet syndrome corresponds a phenotype severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI), a form of intractable epilepsy of childhood.[1] [2] Prompt and precise diagnosis of Dravet is critical, due to the high risk of status epilepticus and sudden unexplained death in epilepsy (SUDEP), and that commonly prescribed antiepileptic sodium channel blockers aggravate Dravet seizures [3]

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Lennox–Gastaut syndrome

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Dravet, Charlotte & Hirokazu Oguni [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/B978-0-444-52891-9.00065-8 DRAVET syndrome (severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy)

síndrome de Dravet

Rev Clin Med fam 7(2): 134-136

Disease classification WHO
G40.3 Dravet's syndrome
  1. ↑ NeuroWikia:Síndromes epilépticos de la primera infancia
  2. ↑ Singh et al. 2001Severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy: extended spectrum of GEFS+? Epilepsia 42:837-844
  3. ↑ In vivo, in vitro and in silico correlations of four de novo SCN1A missense mutations
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