Case report

Landau-Kleffner Syndrome – Case Report

Stanislav Rogulja ; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Clinical Hospital Center Osijek, Croatia
Marina Bježančević ; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Clinical Hospital Center Osijek, Croatia
Petra Horvat ; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Clinical Hospital Center Osijek, Croatia
Katarina Dodig-Ćurković ; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Clinical Hospital Center Osijek, Croatia, Faculty of Medicine Osijek, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia, Faculty for Dental Medicine and Health, Osijek, Croatia

Abstract

Landau-Kleffner syndrome is an epileptic childhood syndrome and is synonymous with acquired epileptic aphasia. Since 1957, when Landau and Kleffner identified six children with the disorder, more than 350 cases worldwide have been reported. The specificity of Landau Kleffner syndrome is an acute loss of speech and language in a child who
developed normal language and global regression of behaviour. The rarity of this syndrome makes it extremely demanding to diagnose. It requires a multidisciplinary treatment by specialists in the field of pediatrics, neuropediatrics, child psychiatry, psychology, logopedia, otorhinolaryngology, and brain imaging. The final diagnosis is based on an epileptogenically altered EEG finding during sleep with an orderly brain MRI finding, along with clinical manifestations of the syndrome. This paper describes a multidisciplinary treatment, early initiation of treatment, and further course of illness.

Keywords

Landau-Kleffner syndrome; Acquired epileptic aphasia

Hrčak ID:

218772

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/218772

Publication date:

5.4.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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