Epilepsy in Prader-Willi syndrome: clinical characteristics and correlation to genotype.
Publication/Presentation Date
11-1-2010
Abstract
Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a genomic imprinting disease secondary to the loss of a functional paternal copy of 15q11-q13. Unlike its related imprinting disorder, Angelman syndrome, PWS has not been regarded as a risk factor for epilepsy. A retrospective analysis of 92 patients with PWS identified 24 (26%) with seizures. Twenty-two of these (92%) were affected by focal epilepsy and only two (8%) had generalized epilepsy. The most common seizure type was staring spells (67%). Correlation to genotype analysis showed deletions were more common in patients with epilepsy than in patients without epilepsy. The epilepsy syndromes were easy to control with a single antiepileptic drug in most cases. Three patients (11%) had had febrile seizures. These findings suggest that PWS may be a risk factor for epilepsy, which can manifest with focal features. Patients with PWS with a deletion genotype showed a trend toward developing seizures compared with patients with other genotypes in our series, even though this difference did not achieve statistical significance.
Volume
19
Issue
3
First Page
306
Last Page
310
ISSN
1525-5069
Published In/Presented At
Vendrame, M., Maski, K. P., Chatterjee, M., Heshmati, A., Krishnamoorthy, K., Tan, W. H., & Kothare, S. V. (2010). Epilepsy in Prader-Willi syndrome: clinical characteristics and correlation to genotype. Epilepsy & behavior : E&B, 19(3), 306–310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2010.07.007
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
20727826
Department(s)
Department of Medicine
Document Type
Article