Lafora disease: A progressive myoclonus epilepsy
β Scribed by E. J. ELLIOTT; I. C. TALBOT; I. F. PYE; S. HODGES; P. G. F. SWIFT; M. S. TANNER
- Book ID
- 118706620
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 804 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1034-4810
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Lafora disease is a fatal autosomal recessive form of progressive myoclonus epilepsy. Patients manifest myoclonus and tonicβclonic seizures, visual hallucinations, intellectual, and progressive neurologic deterioration beginning in adolescence. The two genes known to be involved in Lafora disease ar
Communicated by Alastair F. Brown Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsy (PME) of the Lafora type is an autosomal recessive disease, which presents in teenage years with myoclonia and generalized seizures leading to death within a decade of onset. It is characterized by pathognomonic inclusions, Lafora bodi