Pediatrics · Pediatrics / Pediatric neurology
Dravet syndrome
also: Severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy
Epileptic encephalopathy with febrile seizure onset.
- Specialty
- Pediatrics
- Subspecialty
- Pediatrics / Pediatric neurology
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected, equal; Children: yes, onset in first year
- Gene(s) involved
- GABRG2, PCDH19, SCN1A, SCN1B
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy
Etiology & mechanism
SCN1A loss of function.
Gene(s) involved (4)
Symptoms & signs (5)
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Shares symptoms with
2 shared
Cerebral folate deficiency syndrome
ataxia, developmental regression
2 shared
Leigh syndrome
ataxia, developmental regression
2 shared
MERRF syndrome
ataxia, myoclonus
2 shared
Opsoclonus–myoclonus syndrome
ataxia, myoclonus
1 shared
Abetalipoproteinemia
ataxia
1 shared
Acquired cerebellar syndrome
ataxia
1 shared
Action myoclonus–renal failure syndrome
ataxia
1 shared
Angelman syndrome
ataxia
1 shared
Brown–Vialetto–Van Laere syndrome
ataxia
1 shared
Corticobasal syndrome
myoclonus
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