Abstract

QUITO-BETANCOURT, Bolívar F.  and  REYES VALENZUELA, Gabriela. Self-limited Focal Epilepsies of Childhood. Medicina (B. Aires) [online]. 2023, vol.83, suppl.4, pp.57-62. ISSN 0025-7680.

Self-limited Focal Epilepsies of Childhood (SELFEs) are the most prevalent electroclinical syndromes in pe diatric age, whose typical evolution, with age-dependent onset and remission, has allowed the ILAE Nosology and Definitions Working Group (2022) to define them as “Self-limited Focal Epilepsies of Childhood”, thus establishing alert and exclusion criteria to standardize their diagno sis. These syndromes include: Self-limited Epilepsy with Centrotemporal Spikes (previously Rolandic Epilepsy), Self-limited Epilepsy with Autonomic Seizures (previ ously Panayiotopoulos Syndrome), Childhood Occipital Visual Epilepsy, (previously Gastaut Syndrome), and Photosensitive Occipital Lobe Epilepsy. Using the term “benign” to refer to them is no longer recommended, as this would ignore the comorbidities some individuals suffer. Also, the term “idiopathic” is now only used to refer to the syndromes classified as Idiopathic General ized Epilepsies.

Keywords : Focal; Epilepsy; Childhood; Self-limited; Treatment.

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