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Bookmark or Share- Dravet Syndrome: What It Is, Symptoms, Prognosis & TreatmentDravet syndrome is a rare type of epilepsy that starts in the first year of your baby’s life. Its first occurrence is usually a long-lasting seizure (more than five minutes) that’s triggered by a high fever.
- Diagnosis and Treatment - Dravet Syndrome FoundationDravet syndrome is an intractable developmental and epileptic encephalopathy that begins in infancy and proceeds with accumulating morbidity that significantly impacts individuals throughout their lifetime. Initial presentation of Dravet syndrome includes:
- Dravet Syndrome | Symptoms, Diagnosis and TreatmentDravet syndrome is also known as “severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy.” It is rare. It affects one in every 15,000 children. The goal of treatment is to improve quality of life by controlling seizures and improving cognitive outcomes. Cognitive outcomes are a a person’s ability to think and reason. Dravet Syndrome Causes.
- Dravet Syndrome | Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaDravet syndrome — formerly known as severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI) — is a genetic epilepsy, characterized by temperature-sensitive/febrile seizures, treatment-resistant epilepsy that begins in the first year of life, and differences in childhood development.
- Dravet syndrome: Symptoms, treatment, prognosis, and moreDravet syndrome, previously known as severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy, is a rare form of epilepsy that begins in the first year of life. Estimates suggest it affects around 1 in 40,000...
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