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Resumo

Definição

História e exame físico

Principais fatores diagnósticos

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • episódios de olhar perdido ou desatenção
  • Crises convulsivas tônico-clônicas
  • espasmos musculares breves e arrítmicos
  • revirar os olhos
  • doença intercorrente
  • quedas inexplicadas

Outros fatores diagnósticos

  • incontinência
  • morder a língua
  • fenômenos pós-ictais
  • precipitadas por fadiga ou ausência de sono
  • precipitadas pela luz ou por ruídos
  • atraso do desenvolvimento
  • estigmas neurocutâneos

Fatores de risco

  • predisposição genética ou história familiar
  • insultos pré-natais ou perinatais
  • distúrbios metabólicos/neurodegenerativos
  • lesão cerebral traumática
  • anormalidades estruturais do sistema nervoso central (SNC)
  • síndromes neurocutâneas
  • história de convulsões febris
  • transtorno do espectro autista
  • infecção do SNC

Investigações diagnósticas

Primeiras investigações a serem solicitadas

  • eletroencefalograma (EEG)
  • nível glicêmico
  • perfil metabólico básico
  • Hemograma completo
  • eletrocardiograma (ECG)

Investigações a serem consideradas

  • ressonância nuclear magnética (RNM) cranioencefálica
  • TC cranioencefálica
  • teste genético

Algoritmo de tratamento

Colaboradores

Autores

Katherine C. Nickels, MD

Associate Professor, Neurology

EEG Lab Director

Child and Adolescent Neurology Residency Recruitment Chair

Mayo Clinic

Rochester

MN

Declarações

KCN has received travel compensation for attending advisory board meetings for Biocodex, Zogenix/UCB, and Takeda pharmaceuticals and will be receiving compensation for participating in advisory board meeting for Longboard. She receives compensation for participating in the J. Kiffin Penry Epilepsy Education Programs. She received hotel compensation for participating in CME education symposium through Miller Medical Communications, LLC, sponsored by UCB. She has received and will receive hotel compensation for participating in the Jack Pellock Resident on Pediatric Epilepsy Seminar through the Child Neurology Society. She is on the professional advisory board for the Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota and receives no compensation. She serves as an assistant editor for Epilepsy Currents, for which she has not received compensation. She has participated in research and innovation for SEER medical and receives no compensation or royalties. She is an author of references cited in this topic.

Agradecimentos

Dr Katherine C. Nickels would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Leena Mewasingh, Dr Alla Nechay, and Dr Ewa Posner, previous contributors to this topic.

Declarações

LM attended educational events hosted by Eisai and Novartis. AN and EP declare that they have no competing interests.

Revisores

Adam L. Hartman, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics

Johns Hopkins Hospital

Baltimore

MD

Declarações

AH has received research support from the National Institutes of Health that is greater than 6 figures. ALH's research is funded in part by the National Institutes of Health. He is the co-author of one review that is referenced in this topic.

Roger Weis, MD

Pediatric Neurologist

Kinderneurologisches Zentrum Mainz

Mainz

Germany

Declarações

RW declares that he has no competing interests.

John Stephenson, MA, BM, DM, FRCP, HonFRCPCH

Consultant

Paediatric Neurology Emeritus

Fraser of Allander Neurosciences Unit

Royal Hospital for Sick Children

Honorary Professor in Paediatric Neurology and Senior Research Fellow

Department of Child Health

Division of Developmental Medicine

University of Glasgow

Glasgow

UK

Declarações

JS declares that he has no competing interests.

Anna Basu, BM, BCh, PhD, MA, MRCPCH

Honorary Clinical Lecturer

Paediatric Neurology

Newcastle General Hospital

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

UK

Declarações

AB has previously worked as part of a clinical team with Dr Ewa Posner, a previous contributor to this topic. AB declares that she has no competing interests.

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