benign occipital epilepsy
Last reviewed 01/2018
This is usually a benign syndrome of childhood epilepsy.
Children with benign occipital epilepsy have partial seizures characterised by:
- visual hallucinations
- migrainous phenomena
- postictal headache
There is a subgroup of patients who have resistant epilepsy and cognitive impairment. Some of these children have lesions in the occipital cortex.
The EEG shows sharp and slow wave activity which is suppressed by eye opening.
NICE suggest first-line drugs for this condition are carbamazepine, lamotrigine, oxcarbazepine or sodium valproate (1).
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