Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to J Alving.
Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy is a well defined, age related epileptic syndrome. Case reports are presented, demonstrating the onset of this syndrome very early in life as well as in old age. Consequently, since the correct diagnosis is of decisive importance with regard to optimal treatment, the search for this syndrome should not be confined to juvenile patients.
Dogs with spontaneous occurring epilepsy with partial seizures express symptomatology resembling what is found in humans with partial epileptic seizures. Questionnaires on clinical signs from 70 dogs, with a confirmed diagnosis of epilepsy with partial seizures with or without secondary generalization, were reviewed in order to characterize and classify clinical signs of partial seizure activity in dogs and compare them to partial seizure phenomenology in humans. Signs of partial seizure activity were distributed into three categories: motor signs, autonomic signs and paroxysms of behavioral signs. Motor signs were described in 48 dogs (69%), autonomic signs in 16 dogs (23%) and paroxysms of behavioral signs in 56 dogs (80%). The majority of dogs expressed signs from more than one group. Sixty-one dogs (87%) had partial seizures with secondary generalization. Nine dogs (13%) had partial seizures without secondary generalization. The study shows a remarkable resemblance between the seizure phenomenology expressed in humans and canines with partial epileptic seizures.