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Dalen Meurs-van der Schoor C, van Weissenbruch M, van Kempen M, et al. Severe Neonatal Epileptic Encephalopathy and KCNQ2 Mutation: Neuropathological Substrate?. Front Pediatr. 2014;2:136doi: 10.3389/fped.2014.00136.
Dalen Meurs-van der Schoor, C., van Weissenbruch, M., van Kempen, M., Bugiani, M., Aronica, E., Ronner, H., & Vermeulen, R. J. (2014). Severe Neonatal Epileptic Encephalopathy and KCNQ2 Mutation: Neuropathological Substrate?. Frontiers in pediatrics, 2136. https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2014.00136
Dalen Meurs-van der Schoor, Charlotte, et al. "Severe Neonatal Epileptic Encephalopathy and KCNQ2 Mutation: Neuropathological Substrate?." Frontiers in pediatrics vol. 2 (2014): 136. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2014.00136
Dalen Meurs-van der Schoor C, van Weissenbruch M, van Kempen M, Bugiani M, Aronica E, Ronner H, Vermeulen RJ. Severe Neonatal Epileptic Encephalopathy and KCNQ2 Mutation: Neuropathological Substrate?. Front Pediatr. 2014 Dec 19;2:136. doi: 10.3389/fped.2014.00136. eCollection 2014. PMID: 25566516; PMCID: PMC4271583.
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Front Pediatr. 2014 Dec 19;2:136. doi: 10.3389/fped.2014.00136. eCollection 2014.

Severe Neonatal Epileptic Encephalopathy and KCNQ2 Mutation: Neuropathological Substrate?.

Frontiers in pediatrics

Charlotte Dalen Meurs-van der Schoor, Mirjam van Weissenbruch, Marjan van Kempen, Marianna Bugiani, Eleonora Aronica, Hanneke Ronner, R Jeroen Vermeulen

Affiliations

  1. Department of Neonatology, VU University Medical Center , Amsterdam , Netherlands.
  2. Department of Medical Genetics, University Medical Center , Utrecht , Netherlands.
  3. Department of Pathology, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center , Amsterdam , Netherlands ; Department of Child Neurology, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center , Amsterdam , Netherlands.
  4. Department of Pathology, Academic Medical Center , Amsterdam , Netherlands.
  5. Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, VU University Medical Center , Amsterdam , Netherlands.
  6. Department of Child Neurology, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center , Amsterdam , Netherlands.

PMID: 25566516 PMCID: PMC4271583 DOI: 10.3389/fped.2014.00136

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Neonatal convulsions are clinical manifestations in a heterogeneous group of disorders with different etiology and outcome. They are attributed to several genetic causes.

METHODS: We describe a patient with intractable neonatal seizures who died from respiratory compromise during a status epilepticus.

RESULTS: This case report provides electroencephalogram (EEG), MRI, genetic analysis, and neuropathological data. Genetic analysis revealed a de novo heterozygous missense mutation in the KCNQ2 gene, which encodes a subunit of a voltage-gated potassium channel. KCNQ2 gene mutation is associated with intractable neonatal seizures. EEG, MRI, data as well as mutation analysis have been described in other KCNQ2 cases. Post-mortem neuropathological investigation revealed mild malformation of cortical development with increased heterotopic neurons in the deep white matter compared to an age-matched control subject. The new finding of this study is the combination of a KCNQ2 mutation and the cortical abnormalities.

CONCLUSION: KCNQ2 mutations should be considered in neonates with refractory epilepsy of unknown cause. The mild cortical malformation is an important new finding, though it remains unknown whether these cortical abnormalities are due to the KCNQ2 mutation or are secondary to the refractory seizures.

Keywords: KCNQ2 mutation; MRI; cortical dysplasia; ion channel gene defect; neonatal; neonatal seizures

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