Table.
Clinical details of 15 infants with sleep myoclonus
| Case
|
Sleep myoclonus
|
Rhythmic myoclonus
|
Electroencephalography
|
Neuroimaging
|
Treatment
|
Outcome
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Onset (day of life)
|
Age resolved
|
General
|
Focal
|
Between episodes
|
During episodes
|
Ultrasound
|
CCT/MRI
|
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| 1 | 7 | 3 months | Present | Present | Normal | Normal | Normal | MRI normal | Phenobarbitone, phenytoin, diazepam | Normal | |||
| 2 | 2 | 6 weeks | Present | Absent | Normal | Normal | Normal | ND | Phenobarbitone | Normal | |||
| 3 | 4 | 3 months | Present | Absent | Normal | Normal | Normal | ND | Phenobarbitone | Normal | |||
| 4 | 8 | 2 months | Present | Present | Normal | ND | Normal | ND | None | Normal | |||
| 5 | 4 | 7 months | Present | Present | Normal | ND | Normal | ND | Phenobarbitone, phenytoin | Normal | |||
| 6 | 7 | 3 years | Present | Absent | Normal | Normal | Normal | ND | Phenobarbitone, carbamazepine | Normal | |||
| 7 | 7 | 4 weeks | Present | Absent | Normal | Normal | Normal | ND | None | Normal | |||
| 8 | 5 | 3 months | Present | Present | Normal | ND | Normal | ND | None | Normal | |||
| 9 | 7 | 6 months | Present | Present | Normal | ND | Normal | ND | None | Normal | |||
| 10 | 7 | 4 months | Present | Present | Normal | ND | ND | ND | None | Normal | |||
| 11 | 28 | 5 months | Present | Present | Normal | Normal | ND | ND | None | Normal | |||
| 12 | 5 | 9 weeks | Present | Absent | Normal | ND | Normal | CCT normal | Phenobarbitone | Normal | |||
| 13 | 8 | 4 months | Present | Absent | Normal | ND | Normal | CCT normal | Phenobarbitone | Normal | |||
| 14 | 7 | 3 months | Present | Absent | Normal | ND | Normal | ND | None | Normal | |||
| 15 | 2 | 3 months | Present | Present | Normal | ND | Normal | ND | None | Normal | |||
ND = investigation not done; MRI = magnetic resonance imaging; CCT = cranial computed tomography.