Clinical characteristics and immunotherapy efficacy in autoimmune-associated benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes: A prospective cohort study

CONCLUSION: These findings support the hypothesis that autoimmune mechanisms contribute to the pathogenesis of selected BECTS cases. Latent viral infections such as CMV may serve as potential triggers. Atypical presentations of BECTS, with Bilateral Rolandic spikes in EEG, indicate the possibility of an autoimmune-associated trigger. Immunotherapy appears to offer therapeutic benefits to patients with autoimmunity-associated BECTS.

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