Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsies

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Is a:

Disease or Syndrome

Definition:

A heterogeneous group of primarily familial disorders characterized by myoclonic seizures, tonic-clonic seizures, ataxia, progressive intellectual deterioration, and neuronal degeneration. These include lafora disease; merrf syndrome; neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinosis; sialidosis (see mucolipidoses), and unverricht-lundborg syndrome.

Synonyms:

Action Myoclonus Renal Failure Syndrome
Action Myoclonus-Renal Failure Syndrome
Atrophies, Dentatorubral-Pallidoluysian
Atrophy, Dentatorubral-Pallidoluysian
Atypical Inclusion Body Disease
Atypical Inclusion-Body Disease
Atypical Inclusion-Body Diseases
Biotin Responsive Encephalopathy
Biotin-Responsive Encephalopathies
Biotin-Responsive Encephalopathy
Dentatorubral Pallidoluysian Atrophy
Dentatorubral-Pallidoluysian Atrophies
Dentatorubral-Pallidoluysian Atrophy
Disease, Atypical Inclusion-Body
Diseases, Atypical Inclusion-Body
Encephalopathies, Biotin-Responsive
Encephalopathy, Biotin-Responsive
Epilepsies, Progressive Myoclonic
Epilepsies, Progressive Myoclonus
Epilepsy, Progressive Myoclonic
Epilepsy, Progressive Myoclonus
Familial Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsy
Inclusion-Body Disease, Atypical
Inclusion-Body Diseases, Atypical
May White Syndrome
May-White Syndrome
May-White Syndromes
Myoclonic Epilepsy, Progressive
Myoclonus Epilepsies, Progressive
Myoclonus Epilepsy, Progressive
Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsies
Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsy
Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsies
Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsy
Syndrome, May-White
Syndromes, May-White

Broader Topics:

Epilepsies, Myoclonic

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