Aicardi syndrome – case report and literature review

Abstract

Aicardi syndrome (AS) is a rare congenital disorder with neurodevelopmental symptoms that in the significant majority of cases occurs in females. It is typically characterized by a classic triad of symptoms: epileptic spasms, agenesis of the corpus callosum (CC) and central chorioretinal lacunae. It is also necessary to underline that drug resistant epilepsy is the main image of AS. Intellectual disability, ocular, craniofacial and other neurodevelopmental disorders are other common defects found in these patients. This paper presents a patient with AS and refractory epilepsy. She had been treated for epilepsy with epileptic spasms from the age of 3 months, though subsequent medications did not lead to seizure freedom. Further research is needed in order to appropriately address the issue of effective treatment in these patients.

Keywords

• drug resistance
• epilepsy
• aicardi syndrome
• epileptic spasms
• chorioretinal lacunae
• agenesis of the corpus callosum