Atypical BECTS and homocystinuria

Neurology. 2003 Oct 28;61(8):1129-31. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000090460.77321.b0.

Abstract

Reported is an association of atypical benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS) and homocystinuria in three apparently healthy children with borderline intelligence, two of whom had difficult-to-control seizures. In all three, EEG were suggestive of BECTS, although the clinical features were not. Homocystinuria could not be diagnosed for several years, pending metabolic evaluation.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Anticonvulsants / therapeutic use
  • Child
  • Diet Therapy
  • Drug Resistance
  • Electroencephalography
  • Epilepsy, Rolandic / complications*
  • Epilepsy, Rolandic / diagnosis*
  • Epilepsy, Rolandic / drug therapy
  • Female
  • Homocystinuria / complications*
  • Homocystinuria / diagnosis*
  • Homocystinuria / therapy
  • Humans
  • Intellectual Disability / diagnosis
  • Intellectual Disability / etiology
  • Male
  • Pyridoxine / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Anticonvulsants
  • Pyridoxine