Intractable epilepsy, audio-visual hallucinations and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease 1A in an African-American boy

Clin EEG Neurosci. 2011 Jul;42(3):206-8. doi: 10.1177/155005941104200312.

Abstract

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease 1A (CMT1A) is the most common autosomal dominant demyelinating sensorimotor polyneuropathy. A few patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease were reported in the literature to have epilepsy. We report on an African-American boy with CMT1A, with duplication of peripheral myelin protein 22 gene, who also developed intractable generalized tonic-clonic seizures and audiovisual hallucinations.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Black or African American
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease / diagnosis
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease / epidemiology*
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease / genetics
  • Child
  • Comorbidity
  • Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic / epidemiology*
  • Gene Duplication
  • Hallucinations / epidemiology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Myelin Proteins / genetics

Substances

  • Myelin Proteins
  • PMP22 protein, human