Research Article
Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy in Rural Western India: Not Yet a Benign Syndrome
Table 1
Pitfalls in diagnosis and treatment.
| | Number percentage |
| Pitfalls in diagnosis | | Absence of prior neurology consultation | 42 (81.1%) | Missed history of myoclonus in prior consults | 39 (73.5%) | Prior EEG showing focal discharges | 15 (28.3%) | Prior EEG being normal | 16 (30.1%) | Misinterpreted EEG | 10 (18.8%) | Pitfalls in treatment | | Incorrect antiepileptic (AED) drug use | 37 (69.8%) | Underdosing of AED | 21 (39.6%) | Noncompliance with lifestyle | 24 (45.3%) | Noncompliance with medicines | 18 (33.9%) | Associated psychogenic nonepileptiform events | 9 (16.9%) | Patients deliberately missing medicines for secondary gain | 8 (15.1%) | Concomitant alternative medicine use | 18 (33.9%) |
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