Lennox-Gastaut syndrome

Lennox-Gastaut syndrome is one of the severe childhood epileptic encephalopathies. It occurs especially in children between two and five years. In about half of the affected children, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome is symptomatic.

Most notably, West Syndrome occurred prior to Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. But also brain damage during pregnancy or childbirth, severe inflammation of the brain or developmental disorders of the brain can be triggers. Rarely, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome is idiopathic.

Characteristic of this disease is the occurrence of various seizures. These range from myoclonic seizures, atonic, especially tonic, astatic to focal seizures and atypical absences.