benign infantile focal epilepsy with midline spikes and wave during sleep
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No curated finding names benign infantile focal epilepsy with midline spikes and wave during sleep yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Benign infantile focal epilepsy with midline spikes and waves during sleep is a rare infantile epilepsy syndrome characterized by age of onset between 4 and 30 months, partial sporadic seizures presenting with motion arrest, staring, cyanosis and, less common, automatisms and lateralizing signs, and characteristic interictal sleep EEG changes consisting of a spike followed by a bell-shaped slow wave in the midline region.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0015641), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
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Resolves to: benign infantile focal epilepsy with midline spikes and wave during sleep
- Also called
- BIMSE