Abstract
This study deals with a child with different type of seizures several times in week
and unresponsive to antiepileptic drugs. Distinguishing between epileptic seizure
and motor tic in a patient diagnosed with epilepsy and autism can be challenging.
In this study we presented a male child patient on carbamazepine (CBZ) therapy. In
the first days of treatment seizure frequency decreased, but after CBZ treatment dosage
reached 15 mg/kg/day (at the 25th day of the treatment), the patient presented to
the clinic describing several episodes of myoclonus. There were no changes in electroencephalography
during the myoclonus. In follow-up, myoclonus was not described after the cessation
of CBZ.
Keywords
myoclonus - carbamazepine - child
