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Electromagnetic Source Imaging in Presurgical Evaluation of Children with Drug-Resistant Epilepsy
Published on: September 20, 2024
A child with Friedreich's ataxia and epilepsy
Meredith R Golomb1, Anna Illner, Celanie K Christensen
1Department of Neurology, Division of Pediatric Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis 46202, USA. mgolomb@iupui.edu
Abstract:
Epilepsy in Friedreich's ataxia is rare. We describe a 9-year-old boy with Friedreich's ataxia who had onset of symptoms in the second year of life and developed a generalized epilepsy at age 5 years. On cerebral magnetic resonance imaging, he has a subependymal gray-matter heterotopia. We suggest that his gray-matter heterotopia might be related to his diagnosis of Friedreich's ataxia and that his early onset of symptoms might be related to the length of his guanine-adenine-adenine (GAA) triplet repeat expansion.
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