lschriml
commented
4 years ago There is a revised/updated classification of epilepsies. https://www.ilae.org/guidelines/definition-and-classification/definition-of-epilepsy-2014
https://www.ilae.org/files/ilaeGuideline/Definition2014.pdf
https://www.ilae.org/guidelines/definition-and-classification Operational Classification of Seizure Types by the ILAE (2017) Position paper of the ILAE Commission for Classification and Terminology
ILAE Classification of the Epilepsies (2017): Position paper of the ILAE Commission for Classification and Terminology https://www.ilae.org/guidelines/definition-and-classification/ilae-classification-of-the-epilepsies-2017 Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/epi.13709
epilepsy type, including focal epilepsy, generalized epilepsy, combined generalized, and focal epilepsy, and also an unknown epilepsy group. The third level is that of epilepsy syndrome, where a specific syndromic diagnosis can be made. The new classification incorporates etiology along each stage, emphasizing the need to consider etiology at each step of diagnosis, as it often carries significant treatment implications. Etiology is broken into six subgroups, selected because of their potential therapeutic consequences. New terminology is introduced such as developmental and epileptic encephalopathy. The term benign is replaced by the terms self‐limited and pharmacoresponsive, to be used where appropriate. It is hoped that this new framework will assist in improving epilepsy care and research in the 21st century.
--Need to review the new classification and revise the DO.
Cheers, Lynn
allenbaron
The term 'adolescence-adult electroclinical syndrome' (DOID:0050705) is currently a direct child of 'absence epilepsy' (DOID:0070309), however, many of the children of 'adolescence-adult electroclinical syndrome' involve forms of epilepsy that do not belong under 'absence epilepsy' see for example 'juvenile myoclonic epilepsy'. I would suggest moving 'adolescence-adult electroclinical syndrome' and 'childhood electroclinical syndrome' out from under 'absence epilepsy'. We may want to use age of onset or seizure type relationships in this branch to allow for inference of multiple parents based on the two axes of classification.