Migrating Partial Seizures of Infancy

Abstract

A national surveillance study in conjunction with the British Paediatric Neurology Unit was undertaken to further define the clinical, pathological and molecular genetic features of migrating partial seizures of infancy (MPSI), a rare early infantile epileptic encephalopathy with poor prognosis.

Keywords

• migrating partial seizures of infancy
• malignant migrating partial seizures in infancy
• fatal neonatal mitochondrial encephalopathy