Enfoque electroclínico de las epilepsias generalizadas idiopáticas con ausencias: [revisión] / Electrolytic approach of idiopathic generalized epilepsies with absences: [review]

La primera descripción de las crisis de ausencias data de 1705. Sin embargo, aún persiste el desconocimiento y la confusión en relación con algunos aspectos conceptuales, de clasificación, terminológicos, diagnósticos, pronósticos y de tratamiento de las diferentes formas de epilepsias con ausencias. El objetivo fundamental de esta publicación es tomar en consideración las denominadas epilepsias generalizadas idiopáticas con ausencias, en los aspectos clínicos y electroencefalográficos. Se realizó una revisión y actualización del tema.

The first description of absence seizures dates back to 1705. However, the lack of knowledge and confusion still persist as regards some aspects of concept, classification, terminology, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of the different forms of epilepsies with absences. The fundamental purpose of this publication was to take into consideration the so-called idiopathic generalized epilepsies with absences in the clinical and electroencephalographic aspects. The topic was reviewed and updated.

Psychomotor Variant in a Case of Juvenile Absence Epilepsy: An Evidence of Misnomer by Gibbs / 대한간질학회지

The psychomotor variant is a rare EEG pattern as a rhythmical activity at about 6 Hz that may occur in brief or longer runs, independently in the temporal areas during drowsy mental state. It was originally named by Gibbs and Gibbs because of its existence during the ictal or interictal period in patients with psychomotor seizures. We report a 14-year-old girl with juvenile absence epilepsy who showed the long runs of psychomotor variant followed by generalized ictal discharges.