myoclonic epilepsy

Clinical manifestations

• myoclonic seizure

Management

• patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy require lifelong anticonvulsant therapy

More general terms

• epilepsy

More specific terms

• juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (of Janz)
• Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (epileptic encephalopathy, Lennox-Gastaut type)
• myoclonus epilepsy of Unverricht-Lundborg (EPM1)
• progressive myoclonic epilepsy 2A; myoclonic epilepsy of Lafora (MELF)
• progressive myoclonic epilepsy type 1
• severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy (SMEI); Dravet syndrome

Additional terms

• myoclonus
• seizure; epileptic seizure