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MeSH Heading: Myoclonic Epilepsies, Progressive
Tree Number(s): C10.228.140.490.375.130.650; C10.228.140.490.493.063.650
Unique ID: D020191
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D020191
Scope Note: A heterogeneous group of primarily familial EPILEPSY disorders characterized by myoclonic seizures, tonic-clonic seizures, ataxia, progressive intellectual deterioration, and neuronal degeneration. These include LAFORA DISEASE; MERRF SYNDROME; NEURONAL CEROID-LIPOFUSCINOSIS; sialidosis (see MUCOLIPIDOSES), and UNVERRICHT-LUNDBORG SYNDROME.
Entry Term(s): Action Myoclonus-Renal Failure Syndrome; Ataxia, Chorea, Seizures, And Dementia; Atypical Inclusion-Body Disease; Biotin-Responsive Encephalopathy; Dentatorubral-Pallidoluysian Atrophy; Familial Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsy; Haw River Syndrome; May-White Syndrome; Myoclonic Epilepsy, Progressive; Myoclonus-Nephropathy Syndrome; Naito Oyanagi Disease; Naito-Oyanagi Disease; Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsy; Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsies
Previous Indexing: Epilepsies, Myoclonic (1977-1999); Epilepsy (1965-1999); Myoclonus (1968-1999)
Public MeSH Note: 2000; see Epilepsy, Myoclonic 1977-1999
History Note: 2000; use Epilepsy, Myoclonic 1977-1999
Date Established: 2000/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/11/04
Revision Date: 2017/02/24

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Myoclonic Epilepsies, Progressive MeSH Descriptor Data 2023