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Ohtahara syndrome

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Ohtahara syndrome: Early Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy

Ohtahara syndrome is a rare childhood epilepsy first described by Ohtahara et al in 1976. Ohtahara syndrome is one of several severe epilepsy syndromes including West syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome that have been defined by the age of onset. Seizures often begin in the first ten days of life and usually before the age of three months. It is thought that Ohtahara syndrome affects about zero point two per cent of children with epilepsy. Boys are thought to be slightly more affected than girls.

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Medical text written August 2004 by Contact a Family. Approved August 2004 by Professor B Neville. Last updated April 2006 by Professor B Neville, Professor of Childhood Epilepsy, Institute of Child Health, London, UK.

 

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