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Dravet syndrome
Dravet syndrome is a channelopathy with epilepsy of with onset during the first year of life, typically 4-5 months, characterized by status epilepticus and a variety of drug-resistant seizures often induced by fever, presenting in previously healthy children, and which frequently leads to cognitive and motor impairment. Dravet differs from other channelopathies usually due to a mutation in SCN1A.
This condition has no sub-types.