Pharmacoresistant course of idiopathic generalized epilepsy or concomitant pathology: a clinical case
- Authors: Paramonova A.I.1, Demyanova I.M.2, Vasilyeva A.A.1, Palachanina A.V.1, Dmitrenko D.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Voino-Yasenetsky Krasnoyarsk State Medical University
- Krasnoyarsk Regional Clinical Center of Maternal and Child Health
- Issue: Vol 20, No 1 (2025)
- Pages: 39-44
- Section: CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS
- Published: 18.04.2025
- URL: https://rjdn.abvpress.ru/jour/article/view/511
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17650/2073-8803-2025-20-1-39-44
- ID: 511
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Abstract
The development of pharmacoresistance in epilepsy in pediatric patients is one of the most pressing problems. For relatively benign forms such as idiopathic generalized epilepsy, drug resistance is not typical. If it occurs in such patients, there is a need for an additional diagnostic search, in which it is possible to identify a double pathology with the presence of a focus of structural damage to the brain involved in epileptogenic processes. The article presents a clinical case of drug-resistant childhood absence epilepsy in a patient with combined pathology.
About the authors
A. I. Paramonova
Voino-Yasenetsky Krasnoyarsk State Medical University
Author for correspondence.
Email: korolek_xd@bk.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9394-2413
Anastasiya I. Paramonova.
1 Partizana Zheleznyaka St., Krasnoyarsk 660022
Russian FederationI. M. Demyanova
Krasnoyarsk Regional Clinical Center of Maternal and Child Health
Email: fake@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6283-0099
2A Akademika Kirenskogo St., Krasnoyarsk 660074
Russian FederationA. A. Vasilyeva
Voino-Yasenetsky Krasnoyarsk State Medical University
Email: fake@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0008-3369-1537
1 Partizana Zheleznyaka St., Krasnoyarsk 660022
Russian FederationA. V. Palachanina
Voino-Yasenetsky Krasnoyarsk State Medical University
Email: fake@neicon.ru
1 Partizana Zheleznyaka St., Krasnoyarsk 660022
Russian FederationD. V. Dmitrenko
Voino-Yasenetsky Krasnoyarsk State Medical University
Email: fake@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4639-6365
1 Partizana Zheleznyaka St., Krasnoyarsk 660022
Russian FederationReferences
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