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Care of pharmaco-resistant absence seizures in childhood.
Revue Neurologique 2024 Februrary 22
In childhood absence epilepsy, pharmaco-resistance occurs in 20-30% of patients. In that situation, glucose transporter type 1 deficiency has to be ruled out, especially if absences started before the age of four years and if neurological signs are present. If ethosuximide, valproate and lamotrigine have failed in monotherapy or in association, there are currently no valuable therapeutic options. The same rules apply for epilepsy with myoclonic absences. Importantly, arguments supporting that making the patient seizure-free will improve eventual associated cognitive deficits such as attention deficit are very weak. Therefore, limiting the cognitive side effects of the anti-epileptic drugs has always to be a priority when faced with typical refractory absences in childhood. In epilepsy with eyelid myoclonia, the majority of patients are pharmaco-resistant. However, absence seizures, if present, tend to be very brief, and seizures are limited in many patients to eyelid myoclonia that eventually do not affect their quality of life and are well attenuated by wearing blue lenses. Atypical absences occurring in the course a developmental and/or epileptic encephalopathy are often pharmaco-resistant. In that situation, characterizing the type of epilepsy syndrome and searching for a specific genetic or structural etiology are needed to offer the best therapeutic options to the patient.
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