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childhood absence epilepsy type 4

Etiology: - idiopathic Pathology: - generalized epilepsy Genetics: - associated with defects in GABRA1 Clinical manifestations: - onset at age 6-7 years of age - frequent absence seizures (several per day) - during adolescence, tonic-clonic & myoclonic seizures develop - absence seizures may either remit or persist into adulthood Special laboratory: - electroencephalogram (EEG): - bilateral, synchronous, symmetric 3-Hz spike waves on EEG.

General

childhood absence epilepsy

Database Correlations

OMIM 611136

References

UniProt :accession P14867