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NEUROLOGY 1997;48:231-234
© 1997 American Academy of Neurology

Fixation-off-sensitive Epilepsy with Absences and Absence Status

Video-EEG Documentation

A. Agathonikou, MD, M. Koutroumanidis, MD and C. P. Panayiotopoulos, MD, PhD, MRCP

From the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsies, St. Thomas' Hospital, London, England.
Received March 15, 1996. Accepted in final form March 20, 1996.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr Panayiotopoulos, St. Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH, England.

A 33-year-old woman of borderline normal intelligence had catamenial absence status epilepticus and absences since early teens, diagnosed as temporal lobe epilepsy. Clinical and video-EEG evaluation documented that she suffers from a rare epileptic condition manifested with fixation-off sensitivity, absences, absence status, and infrequent generalized tonic-clonic seizures.

NEUROLOGY 1997;48: 231-234






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