Emanuele Cerulli Irelli, Enrico Cocchi, Georgia Ramantani, Antonella Riva, Roberto H Caraballo, Alessandra Morano, Loretta Giuliano, Tülay Yilmaz, Eleni Panagiotakaki, Francesca F Operto, Beatriz Gonzalez Giraldez, Simona Balestrini, Katri Silvennoinen, Sara Casciato, Marion Comajuan, Francesco Fortunato, Anna T Giallonardo, Rimma Gamirova, Antonietta Coppola, Giancarlo Di Gennaro, Angelo Labate, Vito Sofia, Gerhard J Kluger, Antonio Gambardella, Dorothee Kasteleijn-Nolst Trenite, Betul Baykan, Sanjay M Sisodiya, Alexis Arzimanoglou, Pasquale Striano, Carlo Di Bonaventura
OBJECTIVE: Epilepsy with eyelid myoclonia (EEM) has been associated with marked clinical heterogeneity. Early epilepsy onset has been recently linked to lower chances of achieving sustained remission and to a less favorable neuropsychiatric outcome. However, much work is still needed to better delineate this epilepsy syndrome. METHODS: In this multicenter retrospective cohort study, we included 267 EEM patients from 9 countries. Data about electroclinical and demographic features, intellectual functioning, migraine with or without aura, family history of epilepsy and epilepsy syndromes in relatives were collected in each patient...
October 28, 2022: Epilepsia