• 1. Clinical Medical College, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha 410036, China;
  • 2. Epilepsy Center, Brain Hospital in Hunan Province, Changsha 410021, China;
LI Zhenguang, Email: 405291204@qq.com
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Objective The aim was to summarize the seizure and video electroencephalogram (VEEG) characteristics of Dyke-Davidoff-Masson syndrome (DDMS). Methods  The case data of four patients with Dyke-Davidoff-Masson syndrome (DDMS) who attended the Epilepsy Center of Hunan Provincial Brain Hospital from March 2022 to March 2023 were retrospectively analyzed to summarize the clinical manifestations of their seizures and the characteristics of their video electroencephalogram (VEEG). Results  One case of symptomatic epilepsy with focal seizures; VEEG showed poor background activity alpha rhythmic modulation, amplitude modulation, and increased distribution of slow wave activity in the left frontal and temporal regions; bilateral frontal-central and anterior-temporal regions (more so on the left side), with sharp and slow composite wave issuance.Two cases of symptomatic epilepsy with focal seizures progressing to generalized seizures; in one case, the VEEG showed: background activity α-rhythmic modulation, amplitude modulation is possible, the left frontal, central, anterior temporal region slow wave increase; the left frontal central, parietal anterior temporal region spike-like slow wave activity mixed with spike wave, spike-slow complex wave short-medium-range issuance; the other VEEG showed: background activity α-rhythmic modulation, amplitude modulation is possible, the right frontal central, anterior temporal region slow wave increase; right frontal, central, and anterior temporal region for the famous medium-extremely high-high-amplitude slow wave activity mixed with spike wave, spike-slow complex wave short-medium-range issuance. One case of symptomatic epilepsy with generalized seizures; VEEG showed bilateral occipital alpha rhythm asymmetry, right occipital region <50% of the left side, poor regulation and amplitude modulation; bilateral frontal pole, frontal region, anterior temporal region spike and spiking slow complex wave discharges (right side was prominent), and right pterionic electrodes, anterior temporal and mesial temporal spike and spiking slow wave discharges. Conclusions  Epileptic seizures are one of the main clinical manifestations of DDMS and most of them are consulted after a seizure, and their seizure types tend to be focal seizures or progress to generalized seizures, and most of them are drug-refractory epilepsies. The results of VEEG monitoring tend to be characterized by abnormal background activity, increased slow-wave activity, and the site of epileptogenic wave-like discharges tends to be in line with the site of cerebral softening foci or the site of the atrophic side of the brain as shown by cranial MRI.

Citation: LI Guangli, WANG Zhongming, LI Zhenguang, LU Jun, PENG Qiong. Four cases of Dyke-Davidoff-Masson syndrome seizures and video electroencephalogram features. Journal of Epilepsy, 2023, 9(6): 466-471. doi: 10.7507/2096-0247.202309001 Copy

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