Preferred Label : Benign familial neonatal epilepsy;
ICD-11 definition : Epilepsy of the newborn characterized by frequent brief seizures within the first
few days of life. Onset may be as late as 3 months of age. Seizures typically remit
spontaneously within 6 weeks. The ictal electroencephalogram shows initial diffuse
flattening followed by bilateral spikes and sharp waves. The cause is an autosomal
dominant channelopathy with mutations in the voltage-gated potassium channel genes
KCNQ2 or KCNQ3.;
ICD-11 inclusion : Benign idiopathic neonatal seizures; Benign familial neonatal seizures;
Origin ID : 1948859880;
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
Epilepsy of the newborn characterized by frequent brief seizures within the first
few days of life. Onset may be as late as 3 months of age. Seizures typically remit
spontaneously within 6 weeks. The ictal electroencephalogram shows initial diffuse
flattening followed by bilateral spikes and sharp waves. The cause is an autosomal
dominant channelopathy with mutations in the voltage-gated potassium channel genes
KCNQ2 or KCNQ3.
