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Table 5

EPILEPSY SYNDROMES AND RELATED CONDITIONS

  • Benign familial neonatal seizures
  • Early myoclonic encephalopathy
  • Ohtahara syndrome
  • * Migrating partial seizures of infancy
  • West syndrome
  • Benign myoclonic epilepsy in infancy
  • Benign familial infantile seizures
  • Benign infantile seizures (non-familial)
  • Dravet's syndrome
  • HH syndrome
  • * Myoclonic status in nonprogressive encephalopathies
  • Benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes
  • Early onset benign childhood occipital epilepsy (Panayiotopoulos type)
  • Late onset childhood occipital epilepsy (Gastaut type)
  • Epilepsy with myoclonic absences
  • Epilepsy with myoclonic-astatic seizures
  • Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
  • Landau-Kleffner syndrome
  • Epilepsy with continuous spike-and-waves during slow-wave sleep (other than LKS)
  • Childhood absence epilepsy
  • Progressive myoclonus epilepsies
  • Idiopathic generalized epilepsies with variable phenotypes
    • Juvenile absence epilepsy
    • Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
    • Epilepsy with generalized tonic-clonic seizures only
  • Reflex epilepsies
    • Idiopathic photosensitive occipital lobe epilepsy
    • Other visual sensitive epilepsies
    • Primary reading epilepsy
    • Startle epilepsy
  • Autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy
  • Familial temporal lobe epilepsies
  • * Generalized epilepsies with febrile seizures plus
  • * Familial focal epilepsy with variable foci
  • Symptomatic (or probably symptomatic) focal epilepsies
    • Limbic epilepsies
      • Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis
      • Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy defined by specific etiologies
      • Other types defined by location and etiology
    • Neocortical epilepsies
      • Rasmussen syndrome
      • Other types defined by location and etiology

* Syndromes in development

 

CONDITIONS WITH EPILEPTIC SEIZURES THAT DO NOT REQUIRE A DIAGNOSIS OF EPILEPSY

  • Benign neonatal seizures
  • Febrile seizures
  • Reflex seizures
  • Alcohol withdrawal seizures
  • Drug or other chemically-induced seizures
  • Immediate and early post traumatic seizures
  • Single seizures or isolated clusters of seizures
  • Rarely repeated seizures (oligo-epilepsy)

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