Thyroxine-Induced Absences in JME

Abstract

A patient with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME), manifested as absences at age 10 and myoclonic jerking and generalized tonic clonic seizures at age 15, was treated successfully with primidone at the King Fahad National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Keywords

• juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
• tonic clonic seizures
• multispike