Epilepsy inheritance

Madeline Fields; Mona Sazgar; C. L. Harden

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-29170-3_10

Epilepsy inheritance

Madeline Fields
, Mona Sazgar
, C. L. Harden

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Abstract

A 29-year-old woman has a history of epileptic seizures since age 12. Her seizures are partial onset, likely from frontal lobe origin with and without secondary generalized tonic-clonic seizures. She denies history of head injury, febrile convulsions, meningitis, or other risk factors for epilepsy. A cousin has history of convulsive seizures starting at age 16 and grew out of them by age 25 after a handful of convulsive seizures. She is worried about the risk of passing on the gene for epilepsy to her offspring and asks you whether she should refrain from having children. How do you counsel the patient?.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Controversies in Caring for Women with Epilepsy
Subtitle of host publication	Sorting Through the Evidence
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	81-86
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319291703
ISBN (Print)	9783319291680
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29170-3_10
State	Published - 1 Jan 2016

Keywords

Autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (ADNFLE)
Cytogenetic abnormalities
Epilepsy inheritance
Genetic counseling
Mendelian
Pedigree analysis

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