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Article Dans Une Revue Epilepsia Année : 2008

The three stages of epilepsy in patients with CDKL5 mutations.

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UNLABELLED: Mutations in the X-linked cyclin-dependent kinase-like 5 (CDKL5) gene are responsible for a severe encephalopathy with early epilepsy. So far, the electroclinical phenotype remains largely unknown and no clear genotype-phenotype correlations have been established. PURPOSE: To characterize the epilepsy associated with CDKL5 mutations and to look for a relationship between the genotype and the course of epilepsy. METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed the electroclinical phenotypes of 12 patients aged from 2.5 to 19 years diagnosed with pathogenic CDKL5 mutations and one patient with a novel intronic sequence variation of uncertain pathogenicity and examined whether the severity of the epilepsy was linked to the type and location of mutations. RESULTS: The epilepsy course reveals three successive stages: (Stage I) early epilepsy (onset 1-10 weeks) with normal interictal electroencephalogram (EEG) (10/13) despite frequent convulsive seizures; (Stage II) epileptic encephalopathy with infantile spasms (8/8) and hypsarrhythmia (8/8). At the age of evaluation, seven patients were seizure free and six had developed refractory epilepsy (stage III) with tonic seizures and myoclonia (5/6). Interestingly, the patients carrying a CDKL5 mutations causing a truncation of the catalytic domain tended to develop a more frequent refractory epilepsy than patients with mutations located downstream (4/6, 66.6% versus 1/6, 16%) although, these trends are not yet significant. DISCUSSION: Our data contribute to a better definition of the epileptic phenotype in CDKL5 mutations, and might give some clues to a potential relationship between the phenotype and the genotype in these patients.

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hal-00652527 , version 1 (15-12-2011)

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Nadia Bahi-Buisson, Anna Kaminska, Nathalie Boddaert, Marlène Rio, Alexandra Afenjar, et al.. The three stages of epilepsy in patients with CDKL5 mutations.. Epilepsia, 2008, 49 (6), pp.1027-37. ⟨10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01520.x⟩. ⟨hal-00652527⟩
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