Hypothalamic hamartoma: clinical features
Written and reviewed by Dr Ibrahim Imam, Consultant Neurologist. Last reviewed .
Hypothalamic hamartoma: clinical features. Gelastic (laughing) seizures, Dacrystic/quiritarian (crying) seizures. Fully referenced neurology checklist.
Seizures: types
- Gelastic (laughing) seizures
- Dacrystic/quiritarian (crying) seizures
- Cursive (running) seizures
- Focal seizures
- Secondary generalised tonic-clonic seizures
- Atonic seizures
- Sleep-related tonic seizures
- Atypical absence seizures
- Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS)
- Refractory epilepsy without gelastic seizures
- Paroxysmal tonic eye deviation
- Ictal psychosis: case report
- New onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE)
- Epileptic encephalopathy
Autonomic features
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Psychiatric features
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Endocrine features
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Other neurological features
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References
- Striano S, Striano P. Clinical features and evolution of the gelastic seizures-hypothalamic hamartoma syndrome. Epilepsia 2017; 58(Suppl 2):12-15.
- Tellez-Zenteno JF, Serrano-Almeida C, Moien-Afshari. Gelastic seizures associated with hypothalamic hamartomas. An update in the clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat 2008; 4:1021-1031.
- Sethi PK, Rao TS. Gelastic, quiritarian, and cursive epilepsy. A clinicopathological appraisal. JNNP 1976; 39:823-828.
- Kovac S, Diehl B, Wehner T, et al. Gelastic seizures: incidence, clinical and EEG features in adult patients undergoing video-EEG telemetry. Epilepsia 2015; 56:e1-e5.
- Pati S, Deep A, Troester MM, Kossoff EH, Ng YT. Lennox-Gastaut syndrome symptomatic to hypothalamic hamartoma: evolution and long-term outcome following surgery. Pediatr Neurol 2013; 49:25-30.
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