Brain & development · 2018
Hemiconvulsion-hemiplegia-epilepsy evolving to contralateral hemi-Lennox-Gastaut-like phenotype.
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Myers Kenneth A, Scheffer Ingrid E, Archer John S
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BACKGROUND: Hemiconvulsion-hemiplegia-epilepsy (HHE) involves infantile-onset acute hemiconvulsive febrile status epilepticus with subsequent unilateral cerebral atrophy and hemiparesis. Chronic epilepsy later develops, typically involving refractory focal seizures; however, the underlying pathophysiology of this epilepsy is not well understood.
PATIENT: We present a boy who had a typical acute presentation of HHE at 23 months, but an unusual evolution to chronic epilepsy in which the initially unaffected hemisphere was significantly abnormal. His initial acute presentation was right-sided hemiconvulsive febrile status epilepticus, with subsequent left cerebral hemiatrophy and hemiparesis affecting the right face, arm and leg. Focal seizures began at 5 years and were refractory to medical treatment. At 9 years, video EEG monitoring showed a striking pattern of interictal slow spike-wave and paroxysmal fast activity, maximal over the right, initially unaffected, hemisphere. He had primarily focal tonic seizures involving left-sided stiffening, also appearing to originate from the right hemisphere. Following left functional hemispherotomy he became seizure-free and parents reported improved cognitive function, attention and quality of life.
DISCUSSION: This boy had classic features of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, but expressed almost exclusively over the right hemisphere, which was initially unaffected in his acute presentation of HHE. His evolution to "hemi-Lennox-Gastaut-like phenotype" illustrates the importance of monitoring chronic epilepsy in patients with HHE; early surgical intervention might prevent pathologic recruitment of bilateral secondary networks leading to the refractory seizures and cognitive impairment associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.
PATIENT: We present a boy who had a typical acute presentation of HHE at 23 months, but an unusual evolution to chronic epilepsy in which the initially unaffected hemisphere was significantly abnormal. His initial acute presentation was right-sided hemiconvulsive febrile status epilepticus, with subsequent left cerebral hemiatrophy and hemiparesis affecting the right face, arm and leg. Focal seizures began at 5 years and were refractory to medical treatment. At 9 years, video EEG monitoring showed a striking pattern of interictal slow spike-wave and paroxysmal fast activity, maximal over the right, initially unaffected, hemisphere. He had primarily focal tonic seizures involving left-sided stiffening, also appearing to originate from the right hemisphere. Following left functional hemispherotomy he became seizure-free and parents reported improved cognitive function, attention and quality of life.
DISCUSSION: This boy had classic features of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, but expressed almost exclusively over the right hemisphere, which was initially unaffected in his acute presentation of HHE. His evolution to "hemi-Lennox-Gastaut-like phenotype" illustrates the importance of monitoring chronic epilepsy in patients with HHE; early surgical intervention might prevent pathologic recruitment of bilateral secondary networks leading to the refractory seizures and cognitive impairment associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.