Current trends in the treatment of infantile spasms
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Current trends in the treatment of infantile spasms
Infantile spasms are an epilepsy syndrome with distinctive features, including age onset during infancy, characteristic epileptic spasms, and specific electroencephalographic patterns (interictal hypsarrhythmia and ictal voltage suppression). Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) was first employed to treat infantile spasms in 1958, and since then it has been tried in prospective and retrospective...
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Correspondence: Chang-Yong Tsao 700 Children’s Dr Columbus, Ohio 43205, USA Tel +1 614-722-4691 Fax +1 614-722-4633 email changyong.tsao@ nationwidechildrens.org Abstract: Infantile spasms are an epilepsy syndrome with distinctive features, including age onset during infancy, characteristic epileptic spasms, and specific electroencephalographic patterns (interictal hypsarrhythmia and ictal volt...
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OBJECTIVE To compare adrenocorticotropic hormone with vigabatrin as a single mono-therapy for infantile spasms. We studied hospitalization time, clinical response, whether complete or partial, time taken for improvement, and presence or absence of recurrence after stopping the medication. Together with improvement of electroencephalographic changes, and time taken for significant response, neur...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1176-6328
DOI: 10.2147/ndt.s4488