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	Medical Dictionary: Epilepsy occipital calcifications - WrongDiagnosis.com
		Epilepsy occipital calcifications is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
		This means that Epilepsy occipital calcifications, or a subtype of Epilepsy occipital calcifications, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
		Familial unilateral and bilateral occipital calcifications and epilepsy
	www.wrongdiagnosis.com /medical/epilepsy_occipital_calcifications.htm (175 words)

	Celiac.com Celiac Disease: (Epilepsy and Celiac Disease) Gluten-Free
		Bilateral occipital calcifications, occurring in celiac disease, are factors coming under a particular cerebral syndrome, which also includes epilepsy, migraine-like headache, visual troubles and mental deterioration.
		Epilepsy evolution was favorable in two patients and severe in 2, regardless of CT evidence of occipital corticosubcortical calcifications in 2 patients.
		Occipital lobe seizures may be characteristic of the epilepsy related to CD, and epileptic patients with these seizures of unknown etiology should be carefully investigated for malabsorption.
	www.celiac.com /st_prod.html?p_prodid=118&p_catid=&sid=91hH9H1FFA676L5-51105343817.9c (1097 words)

	NDI Abstract of Article: 61 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Bilateral occipital calcifications associated with epilepsy and sometimes with celiac disease have been described previously.
		A body with bilateral frontal and occipital diffuse calcifications accompanied by failure to thrive, nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, developmental delay and seizures, but without celiac disease is presented.
		Although bilateral occipital calcifications share some clinical features with bilateral fronto-occipital calcifications, it is arguable whether the two are on a spectrum of a single disease or represent separate entities.
	www.ndif.org /Abstract/jab-61.html (117 words)

	E-epilepsy - Occipital and parietal lobe epilepsies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Epileptic seizures of parietal and occipital origin are heterogeneous and mainly characterised by the presenting auras, although the most dramatic clinical manifestations may reflect spread, and overshadow the focal origin.
		In somatosensory epilepsy, the localisation of electrical discharges on scalp EEG often cannot be correlated with clinical ictal pattern and the seizures are often electrically silent.
		Occipital foci are often widespread and wandering between the occipital pole and the anterior temporal lobes.
	www.e-epilepsy.org.uk /pages/articles/show_article.cfm?id=88 (1903 words)

	Visual disturbances representing occipital lobe epilepsy in patients with cerebral calcifications and coeliac disease: ...
		are the hallmark of epileptic seizures arising from the occipital
		In contrast, the prevalence of bilateral occipital calcifications
		to be undertaken to clarify the pathophysiology of occipital
	jnnp.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/75/11/1623 (1543 words)

	eMedicine - Neuroimaging in Epilepsy Surgery : Article by Erasmo A Passaro, MD
		This further underscores the importance of epilepsy protocol MR imaging which has a high yield for identifying a structural substrate that would enable these patients to be referred early for an epilepsy surgery evaluation thus, providing them with an optimal chance of attaining seizure freedom.
		Epilepsy protocol MR imaging, on the other hand, includes the entire brain from nasion to inion, T1-weighted MPRAGE or SPGR images 1.5-mm slice thickness with no intervening gap obtained in the coronal oblique plane (if temporal lobe epilepsy is suspected).
		All patients with medically intractable partial epilepsy (defined as continued seizures despite therapy with therapeutic doses of appropriate antiepileptic drugs) should be referred for MRI scanning using an epilepsy protocol.
	www.emedicine.com /neuro/topic251.htm (8331 words)

	Seizures of the posterior neocortex
		Panayiotopoulos refined the benign childhood epilepsies with occipital lobe paroxysms into 2 types; an early variety (onset before the age of 5 years) and a late childhood onset type (Panayiotopoulos 1989; 1999; Lada et al 2003).
		Occipital lobe seizures occur in celiac diseases with occipital lobe calcifications (Fois et al 1994; Bernasconi et al 1998) and Sturge-Weber variant (DeMarco and Lorenzin 1990).
		Occipital lobe epilepsy: electroclinical manifestations, electrocorticography, cortical stimulation and outcome in 42 patients treated between 1930 and 1991.
	www.ilae-epilepsy.org /Visitors/Centre/ctf/posterior_neo.html (3911 words)

	Supplementary message board :: View topic - Epilepsy and Celiac Disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The association of celiac disease, epilepsy and occipital calcifications with initial clinical manifestations of epilepsy during the first two decades of life with an often progressive and variable course and clinical expression of malabsorption has recently been described.
		Two cases of celiac disease with occipital calcifications and a presentation with neurologic symptoms in adulthood are reported.
		Both patients had bilateral occipital calcifications on CT and celiac disease was demonstrated on biopsy.
	coeliac.info /suppboard/viewtopic.php?t=557&highlight=epilepsy (893 words)

	Epilepsy Research Archives: February 2005.
		Epilepsy Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Epilepsy, including details on symptoms, causes, treatment, drugs, information.
		The use of lamotrigine, vigabatrin and gabapentin as add-on therapy in intractable epilepsy of childhood.
		Epilepsy and social identity: the stigma of a chronic neurological disorder.
	epilepsy.researchtoday.net /cgi-bin/researchtoday.cgi?TopicName=Epilepsy&Volume=2&Issue=2 (1567 words)

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		TI- Cortical vascular abnormalities in the syndrome of celiac disease, epilepsy, bilateral occipital calcifications, and folate deficiency.
		Fourteen patients had occipital partial epilepsy with a relatively benign outcome, while 4 patients were affected by a severe form of epilepsy, with very frequent, drug-resistant, generalised and partial seizures with mental deterioration.
		Although the calcifications were located in regions similar to calcifications of Sturge Weber cases, many of the features of the syndrome were absent, and this diagnosis seems improbable.
	gflinks.com /epcel.txt (4583 words)

	References : Epilepsy.com/Professionals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Differentiating Occipital Epilepsies from Migraine with Aura, Acephalgic Migraine, and Basilar Migraine.
		Cortical vascular abnormalities in the syndrome of celiac disease, epilepsy, bilateral occipital calcifications, and folate deficiency.
		Epilepsy with rolandic paroxysms and migraine; a nonfortuitous association.
	professionals.epilepsy.com /page/migraine_ref.html (1220 words)

	RemedyFind: patient ratings of Diet: Gluten-free for Epilepsy
		Epilepsy, occipital calcifications, and oligosymptomatic celiac disease in childhood
		In this Argentinian study, 32 pediatric patients with epilepsy, occipital calcifications, and celiac disease were followed for a number of years.
		A favorable outcome of epilepsy was detected in patients with the earliest dietary therapy, leading the authors to conclude that, "A prompt diagnosis of celiac disease might improve the evolution of the epilepsy and may improve cognitive status".
	www.remedyfind.com /treatments/34/1863 (579 words)

	Coeliac disease, epilepsy and cerebral calcifications.
		Coeliac disease, epilepsy and cerebral calcifications (CEC) syndrome is a rare clinical condition.
		Patients with cerebral calcifications (CC) and coeliac disease (CD) without epilepsy are considered as having an incomplete form of CEC syndrome.
		Whether CEC syndrome is a genetic condition, or whether epilepsy and/or CC are a consequence of an untreated CD is unknown yet.
	epilepsy.researchtoday.net /archive/2/3/835.htm (279 words)

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		Intracerebral calcification was found in 12 patients (32.4%) and 7 controls (9.5%) (p = 0.006), and was only found in patients with Raynaud's phenomenon (p = 0.005).
		Calcifications were small and localized in the basal ganglia in 11 patients, and only one patient exhibited calcifications in the temporal lobe.
		The origin and exact relationship of the limited scleroderma and brain calcifications remain to be established; moreover, whether they are secondary to the cerebrovascular damage of scleroderma or represent a separate mucocutaneous syndrome of vascular dysplasia awaits further elucidation.
	www.jrheum.com /01/193.html (1572 words)

	Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria - Is the prevalence of celiac disease increased among epileptic patients? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Apparently the prevalence of CD among epileptic patients is increased although a chance association between epilepsy and CD can not be excluded, since the prevalence of asymptomatic CD in the general population, as previously cited, appears to be relatively high.
		This study was undertaken to assess the prevalence of CD among adults and children with epilepsy attending the Seizure Clinics of two general hospitals of the city of Brasilia (DF), Brazil.
		The child, that never had previously suffered any seizure and had a negative family history for epilepsy, was admitted to the hospital emergency room due to a first generalized tonic-clonic seizure, that progressed, days later, to frequent short lasting complex partial seizures and by brief and frequent (more than fifty times a day) atonic attacks.
	www.scielo.br /scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2003000300002&ln (2839 words)

	Neurology
		The occurrence of CD in living patients with epilepsy of unknown aetiology (n = 199) was investigated; all patients without previously known CD were asked for serological screening for the disease and the diagnosis was verified with small bowel biopsy.
		The presence of occipital calcifications and brain atrophy in all available CT scans (n = 130) was evaluated.
		Prevalence of CD was increased among patients with epilepsy of unknown aetiology, but the combination of CD, epilepsy and intracranial posterior calcifications was rare in Finnish adult epilepsy population.
	www.uams.edu /celiac/Jnl_Clb/Neuro.htm (2461 words)

	Re: Re: Re: Re: lack of diagnosis
		A subsequent tomography and angioresonance dicarded the existence of a tumor and showed calcifications and irregular veins, though these were not sufficient to diagnose a vascular problem.
		In some (?) fortunate individuals, a lesion is found which is the sole cause of their epilepsy, and it is relatively small, in a region of the brain which would produced little or no damage if it were removed.
		Our epilepsy staff is very highly regarded, and they have plenty of experience with surgical treatment of refractory epilepsy.
	www.medhelp.org /forums/neuro/archive/7937.html (996 words)

	E-epilepsy - Coeliac disease, epilepsy and cerebral calcifications
		Coeliac disease, epilepsy and cerebral calcifications (CEC) syndrome is a rare clinical condition characterised by coeliac disease (CD), epilepsy and cerebral calcifications (CC).
		CC are characterised by bilateral cortico-subcortical occipital calcifications without contrast enhancement and brain atrophy.
		Whether the association between CD and epilepsy and cerebral calcifications is merely a co-incidence or a genetic condition, or whether epilepsy and/or cerebral calcifications are a consequence of an untreated CD has still to be demonstrated.
	www.e-epilepsy.org.uk /pages/lit/show_review.cfm?id=263 (183 words)

	CNSforum \| Occipital epilepsies: identification of specific and newly recognized syndromes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Occipital epilepsies often elude diagnosis as they frequently masquerade as other seizure syndromes.
		Visual hallucinations are the key clinical symptoms indicating an occipital focus, but may be difficult to elicit on history, especially from children, and are not always present.
		The idiopathic occipital epilepsies now comprise three identifiable electroclinical syndromes of childhood and adolescence, the biological inter-relationships and overlap with idiopathic generalized epilepsies of which are discussed here.
	www.cnsforum.com /reviewitem/e517e765-844d-47e5-af6c-25c39adba2cf/default.aspx (272 words)

	eMedicine - Sturge-Weber Syndrome : Article by Masanori Takeoka, MD
		Glaucoma and epilepsy were present in 23 (17%) and 17 (14%) patients, respectively, all of whom had involvement of V1.
		In a study of CT scans in 14 children with SWS by Terdjman et al, cortical calcifications were present in 12 patients (see Picture 2), localized atrophy in 10 patients, and enlargement of the choroid plexus and abnormal veins in 7 patients each.
		Di Trapeni et al, from epilepsy surgery cases, reported a mucopolysaccharide substance with calcium in the connective tissue of the vessels early on, that later increases in size and migrates outside the vessels.
	www.emedicine.com /neuro/topic356.htm (9932 words)

	andermann1998.html
		Occipital spikes in non-epileptic children with defective vision, occipital slow spike-and-wave found in some patients with the Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, focal epilepsy due to occipital lesions, seizures originating in the temporal lobe secondary to an occipital abnormality, and complicated or basilar migraine must be considered in the differential diagnosis.
		Benign occipital and benign rolandic epilepsy are commonly associated with migraine.
		The "fixation off" phenomenon or blocking of occipital epileptic discharges by eye opening is not specific to benign occipital epilepsy of childhood and may be found in symptomatic epilepsies as well.
	www.indiana.edu /~pietsch/andermann1998.html (6370 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Baquero M, "Celiac disease with occipital calcifications: 2 late cases" _Med Clin_ (Barc) 1995; 105(20): 781-783 3.
		Cernibori A, "Partial seizures, cerebral calcifications and celiac disease" _Ital J Neurol Sci_ 1995; 16(3): 187-191 7.
		Magaudda A, "Bilateral occipital calcification, epilepsy and coeliac disease: clinical and neuroimaging features of a new syndrome" _J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry_ 1993; 56(8): 885-889 10.
	www.gluten-free.org /hoggan/seizures.txt (426 words)

	Sprue (Coeliac Disease) and Diving
		Recently described are the cerebral calcifications and seizures that are associated with the condition.
		Epilepsy or any kind of seizure activity, loss of consciousness or functional activity is inimical to scuba diving.
		Divers with this diagnosis or people with coeliac disease who wish to undertake diving certification should be checked for subclinical cerebral abnormalities with EEG studies, cerebral imaging studies and blood studies for low calcium and sodium.
	www.scuba-doc.com /sprue.html (210 words)

	Celiac disease epilepsy occipital calcifications
		A syndrome associating celiac disease and epilepsy with cerebral calcifications that resemble those of the Sturge-Weber syndrome (but without port-wine facial naevus) was described in 1992 by Italian authors.
		Computed tomography shows bilateral, usually symmetrical occipital calcifications in the cortical or subcortical layers.
		Celiac disease should be ruled out in all cases of epilepsy, cerebral calcifications of unexplained origin and malabsorption syndrome in infancy.
	www.orpha.net /static/GB/celiac_disease_epilepsy_occipital_calcifications.html (170 words)

	Epilepsy, Seizures, Convulsions
		The term epilepsy encompasses a heterogeneous group of disorders, with a lifetime cumulative incidence of 3%.
		Genetic factors are thought to contribute to the aetiology in up to 60% of cases.Various molecular and cellular mechanisms give rise to epilepsy, and epilepsy genes fall into several distinct categories.
		EPILEPSY AFFECTS approximately1% of the population making it one of the most common neurological diseases...
	www.ibis-birthdefects.org /start/epilepsy.htm (531 words)

	Cerebral calcifications in an elderly lupus patient -- Filloux et al. 62 (3): 283 -- Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
		Cerebral calcifications in an elderly lupus patient -- Filloux et al.
		and calcifications were specifically localised in basal ganglia.
		Intracerebral calcification in a case of systemic lupus erythematosus with neurological manifestations.
	ard.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/62/3/283 (622 words)

	Neurological complications of coeliac disease -- Pengiran Tengah et al. 78 (921): 393 -- Postgraduate Medical Journal
		The syndrome of intractable epilepsy, bilateral occipital calcifications, and folic acid deficiency.
		Bilateral occipital calcification associated with celiac disease, folate deficiency, and epilepsy.
		Intracerebral calcifications appearing during the course of acute lymphocytic leukemia treated with methotrexate and X-rays.
	pmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/78/921/393 (3517 words)

	NDI Article Translation: 61 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Also, the patients calcification of brain tissue began earlier than most bilateral occipital calcifications associated with epilepsy.
		Other conditions associated with DI are tumors, central nervous system malformations, trauma, infections, leukemia, the presence of cells capable of ingesting particulate matter, and Hodgkin's disease.
		Though some researchers have hypothesized that bilateral calcification of the brain can cause DI, at present it is not clear why these two conditions may sometimes be associated with one another.
	www.ndif.org /Translation/jtran-61.html (204 words)

	Celiac disease
		The aim of this study was to screen for neurologic disorders in children and young adults who have CD and presented with either the classical infantile intestinal form or the milder late forms, including some asymptomatic patients.
		Among the patients with mental retardation, 1 had Down syndrome associated with moderate mental retardation; 1 had epilepsy with occipital calcification; and another had mild mental retardation and autism, but no specific cause was found.
		In this respect, Gobbi et al 12 has shown that seizures in patients with the syndrome of cerebral calcification, epilepsy, and CD responded to therapy only when the gluten-free diet was initiated shortly after the emergence of epilepsy.
	www.vaccinetruth.org /celiac_disease.htm (3818 words)

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