Successful treatment of hypothalamic seizures and precocious puberty with GnRH analogue

Neurology. 2000 Dec 26;55(12):1908-10. doi: 10.1212/wnl.55.12.1908.

Abstract

Patients with hypothalamic hamartomas and precocious puberty may develop gelastic seizures that are resistant to conventional antiepileptic drug therapies. While treating precocious puberty in two such patients with long-acting GnRH analogue, the authors observed cessation of gelastic seizures. Although the mechanism is unclear, long-acting GnRH analogue should be considered as a possible therapy for gelastic seizures in patients with hypothalamic hamartomas.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Brain Diseases / drug therapy*
  • Child
  • Female
  • Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone / analogs & derivatives*
  • Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone / antagonists & inhibitors
  • Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone / therapeutic use
  • Hamartoma / drug therapy*
  • Humans
  • Hypothalamus / drug effects
  • Puberty, Precocious / blood
  • Puberty, Precocious / drug therapy*

Substances

  • Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone