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Disease hypothalamic hamartomas
Symptom C0036572|seizures
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PubMedID- 21269296 Purpose: human hypothalamic hamartomas (hhs) are associated with gelastic seizures, intrinsically epileptogenic, and notoriously refractory to medical therapy.
PubMedID- 21377333 Ketogenic diet in the treatment of seizures associated with hypothalamic hamartomas.
PubMedID- 24808722 hypothalamic hamartomas typically present with focal seizures, which may have a gelastic semiology.
PubMedID- 24791078 other surgically remediable epilepsy syndromes include focal epilepsies due to discrete resectable structural lesions, epilepsies due to diffuse hemispheric disturbances, such as hemimegencephaly, rasmussen's encephalitis, sturge-weber syndrome, and large porencephalic cysts, and gelastic seizures with hypothalamic hamartomas, because seizures originate within this alien tissue.
PubMedID- 20887368 Ictogenesis and symptomatogenesis of gelastic seizures in hypothalamic hamartomas: an ictal spect study.
PubMedID- 24328885 Gelastic seizures associated with hypothalamic hamartomas (hhs) are a clinicoradiologic syndrome presenting with a variety of symptoms, including pharmacoresistant epilepsy with multiple seizure types, electroencephalography (eeg) abnormalities, precocious puberty, behavioral disturbances, and progressive cognitive deterioration.

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