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Epilepsy
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General Internal Medicine
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Neurology
How do you manage a patient who has history consistent with juvenille myoclonic epilepsy (JME) but does not have the classic polyspike pattern on EEG?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
They should be managed like any idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE), since JME is but a specific subtype of IGE. SO, broad-spectrum ASMs only.
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