Hypothalamic hamartoma: clinical features

Evidence-based neurology checklist on hypothalamic hamartoma: clinical features: Seizures: types Gelastic (laughing) seizures Dacrystic/quiritarian (crying) seizures Cursive (running) seizures Focal seizures Secondary generalised tonic-clonic seizures Atonic seizures Sleep-related tonic seizures…

Seizures: types

  • Gelastic (laughing) seizures
  • Dacrystic/quiritarian (crying) seizures
  • Cursive (running) seizures
  • Focal seizures
  • Secondary generalised tonic-clonic seizures
  • Atonic seizures
  • Sleep-related tonic seizures
  • Atypical absence seizures
  • Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS)
  • Refractory epilepsy without gelastic seizures
  • Paroxysmal tonic eye deviation
  • Ictal psychosis: case report
  • New onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE)
  • Epileptic encephalopathy

Autonomic features

Psychiatric features

Endocrine features

Other neurological features

References

  1. Striano S, Striano P. Clinical features and evolution of the gelastic seizures-hypothalamic hamartoma syndrome. Epilepsia 2017; 58(Suppl 2):12-15. 
  2. Tellez-Zenteno JF, Serrano-Almeida C, Moien-Afshari. Gelastic seizures associated with hypothalamic hamartomas. An update in the clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat 2008; 4:1021-1031.
  3. Sethi PK, Rao TS. Gelastic, quiritarian, and cursive epilepsy. A clinicopathological appraisal. JNNP 1976; 39:823-828.
  4. Kovac S, Diehl B, Wehner T, et al. Gelastic seizures: incidence, clinical and EEG features in adult patients undergoing video-EEG telemetry. Epilepsia 2015; 56:e1-e5. 
  5. Pati S, Deep A, Troester MM, Kossoff EH, Ng YT. Lennox-Gastaut syndrome symptomatic to hypothalamic hamartoma: evolution and long-term outcome following surgery. Pediatr Neurol 2013; 49:25-30.
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