Lennox-gastaut syndrome

Lennox-Gastaut syndrome: A severe form of epilepsy that is characterized by the onset in early childhood of frequent seizures of multiple types, developmental delay, a particular brain wave pattern (a slow spike-and-wave pattern), ...

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What is Lennox-Gastaut syndrome?
Lennox-Gastaut syndrome is a form of severe epilepsy that begins in childhood. It is characterized by multiple types of seizures and intellectual disability.

Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome
Lennox-Gastaut syndrome is a severe form of epilepsy in young children that causes multiple seizures and some developmental retardation. It usually involves absence, tonic, and partial seizures.

Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome: Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, also known as childhood epileptic encephalopathy, is a devastating pediatric (usually before the age of four) epilepsy syndrome constituting 1-4% of childhood epilepsies.

Lennox-Gastaut syndrome is a rare condition. It makes up only 5% of all cases of childhood epilepsy. Lennox-Gastaut syndrome more commonly affects boys.

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The cause is usually the Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Tonic (sustained) contraction of axial muscles may begin abruptly or gradually, then spread to the proximal muscles of the limbs. Tonic seizures usually last 10 to 15 sec.

Many of these children have a condition called Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Most of the children with this symdrome are boys. Its symptoms include:
Seizures of more than one kind
Autistic symptoms
Mental retardation ...

But the diet has prevented epileptic seizures in many children who did not respond to treatment with antiepileptic medicines, including children with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.

Other conditions that share some common characteristics with Angelman syndrome include Rett syndrome, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and non-specific cerebral palsy.

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See also: Epilepsy, Seizure, Seizures, Symptom, Stroke