Pseudo Lennox syndrome: experience of hormone therapy application

Abstract

Atypical partial epilepsy of childhood or the pseudo - Lennox syndrome is a disease leading to cognitive, speech and motor disorders that impair adaptation and complicates the therapy. Many patients with different forms of epilepsy resistant to conventional drug treatments. Hormone therapy is an alternative method of treatment pseudo - Lennox syndrome conducive to the correction of epileptic seizures and decrease regression of child development. This article describes a clinical case of successful hydrocortisone application in treatment of the pseudo-Lennox syndrome in 5 years old boy. Described the used scheme of treatment and reflects the dynamics of clinical process. The result of this treatment was the relief of the status of atypical absence seizures and reduce symptoms of oro-linguo- buccomotory dyspraxia.