2022 Volume 92 Issue 1 Pages 8-12
Angelman syndrome is a disorder characterized by severe intellectual disability, epilepsy, ataxic movement disorder, and easily provoked laughter. In hemiconvulsion-hemiplegia-epilepsy (HHE) syndrome, the patient presents with unilateral convulsive superimposition during fever, followed by transient or permanent hemiplegia, and later epilepsy. Herein, we report a case of Angelman syndrome with HHE syndrome. The patient was a 1-year-old girl. She was brought to the hospital with convulsive overload, controlled by medication, but a cluster of convulsions occurred on the fifth day of sickness. Based on patient history and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images of the head, biphasic encephalopathy was diagnosed, and symptomatic treatment with anticonvulsants was initiated. HHE syndrome was diagnosed based on the fact that the patient presented with unilateral generalized tonic-clonic convulsions and hemiplegia during the course of acute infection and later developed epilepsy. The early management of convulsions is important in acute encephalopathy, and in Angelman syndrome, not only febrile convulsions but also HHE syndrome may occur. In this study, we found that early identification of patients with epilepsy may lead to appropriate management in the acute phase and reduce the long-term sequelae of epilepsy.
