Epilepsy Information

Benign childhood seizures with occipital paroxysms (late onset)

• Presentation:
  - Age:  8-10 years
  - Seizures types:
    * Visual symptoms are followed by clonic seizure involving half of the body.
    * Headaches occur after the seizures.

• Diagnosis:
  - On EEG

• Causes: 
  - Genetic causes

• Prognosis
  - not as good as the early onset type

• Treatment: needed (Carbamazepine is choice)

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