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Myoclonic Epilepsies, Progressive

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Definition: A heterogeneous group of primarily familial disorders characterized by myoclonic seizures, tonic-clonic seizures, ataxia, progressive intellectual deterioration, and neuronal degeneration. These include LAFORA DISEASE; MERRF SYNDROME; NEURONAL CEROID-LIPOFUSCINOSIS; sialidosis (see MUCOLIPIDOSES), and UNVERRICHT-LUNDBORG SYNDROME.     
Examples Lafora Disease; MERRF Syndrome; Unverricht-Lundborg Syndrome 		Other names Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsy; Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsies; Oyanagi Disease, Naito; Myoclonus Epilepsy, Progressive; Myoclonus Epilepsies, Progressive; Myoclonic Epilepsy, Progressive; May White Syndrome; Inclusion-Body Diseases, Atypical; Inclusion-Body Disease, Atypical; Epilepsy, Progressive Myoclonus; Epilepsy, Progressive Myoclonic; Epilepsies, Progressive Myoclonus; Epilepsies, Progressive Myoclonic; Encephalopathy, Biotin-Responsive; Encephalopathies, Biotin-Responsive; Diseases, Atypical Inclusion-Body; Disease, Atypical Inclusion-Body; Dentatorubral-Pallidoluysian Atrophies; Dentatorubral Pallidoluysian Atrophy; Biotin-Responsive Encephalopathies
 
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Myoclonic epilepsy with choreoathetosis  0   *Myoclonic Epilepsies, Progressive.

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