DEVELOPMENTAL AND/OR EPILEPTIC ENCEPHALOPATHY WITH SPIKE-WAVE ACTIVATION IN SLEEP (DEE-SWAS, EE-SWAS)

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Seizure Classification
Generalized onset seizure
- Motor Onset
- Non-Motor Onset
Focal Onset Seizure
- By Onset Feature
- Focal to Bilateral Tonic-Clonic
- Hemispheric lateralization
- Lobar localization
  - Frontal
  - Temporal
  - Parietal
  - Occipital
Unknown Onset Seizure
Neonatal Seizure
Epilepsy Classification
Generalized Epilepsy
Focal Epilepsy
Generalized and Focal Epilepsy
Unknown Epilepsy
Epilepsy Syndromes
Neonate/Infant
- Self-limited
- With developmental and epileptic encephalopathy
Childhood
- Self-limited focal epilepsy syndromes
  - Remission expected in all cases by adolescence
    - Self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes
    - Self-limited epilepsy with autonomic seizures
  - Remission expected in most cases by adolescence
    - Childhood occipital visual epilepsy
    - Photosensitive occipital lobe epilepsy
- Genetic generalised epilepsy syndromes
  - Epilepsy with eyelid myoclonia
  - Epilepsy with myoclonic absence
- Idiopathic generalised epilepsy syndrome
  - Childhood absence epilepsy
- With developmental and/or epileptic encephalopathy
Variable Age
- Idiopathic generalised epilepsy syndromes
- Focal epilepsy syndromes
- Combined generalised and focal epilepsy syndrome
  - Epilepsy with reading-induced seizures
- With developmental and/or epileptic encephalopathy or progressive neurological deterioration
  - Progressive myoclonus epilepsies
  - Rasmussen syndrome
Epilepsy Etiologies
Genetic Etiologies
- Chromosomal abnormalities
- Gene abnormalities
Structural Etiologies
- Malformations of cortical development
- Vascular malformations
- Hippocampal sclerosis
- Hypoxic-Ischemic
- Traumatic brain injury
- Tumors
- Porencephalic Cyst
Metabolic Etiologies
Immune Etiologies
Infectious Etiologies
Encephalopathy
Epilepsy imitators

DEVELOPMENTAL AND/OR EPILEPTIC ENCEPHALOPATHY WITH SPIKE-WAVE ACTIVATION IN SLEEP (DEE-SWAS, EE-SWAS)

Background

The background may be normal or there may be focal, multifocal or diffuse slowing, depending on the etiology. Normal sleep architecture is absent or difficult to distinguish due to epileptiform abnormality in sleep.

Interictal

Slow (1.5–2Hz) spike-wave discharges are markedly activated in non-REM (stage I-III) sleep. They may be seen diffusely, focally (typically frontally) or multifocally.

eeg
Example of continuous spike-wave in sleep.

CAUTION An overnight sleep EEG may be required, as spike-wave activation in sleep may not be seen during brief periods of sleep.

Activation

The EEG is activated in non-REM sleep.

Ictal

The ictal EEG pattern correlates with the seizure type seen.