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Infantile spasms.
Infantile spasms constitute both a distinctive seizure type and an age-specific epilepsy syndrome that have been extensively described for over a century. Standardization of the classification of infantile spasms has evolved, culminating in recent recommendations for separately recognizing and distinguishing the seizure type (spasms or epileptic spasms) and the epilepsy syndrome of infantile sp...
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Overview Infantile spasms, also known as West syndrome, is a catastrophic childhood epilepsy with seizures that are difficult to control; it is associated with mental retardation. It usually has an onset during the first year of life, and typically between 4 and 8 months. Early recognition, careful diagnostic evaluation, and proper treatment may allow some children to attain seizure control and...
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Objective: To update the 2004 American Academy of Neurology/Child Neurology Society practice parameter on treatment of infantile spasms in children. Methods: MEDLINE and EMBASE were searched from 2002 to 2011 and searches of reference lists of retrieved articles were performed. Sixty-eight articles were selected for detailed review; 26 were included in the analysis. Recommendations were based o...
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Infantile spasms represent a seizure disorder with unique clinical and electroencephalographic (hypsarrhythmia) features and a poor prognosis including chronic intractable epilepsy and psychomotor retardation. The association of spasms and hypsarrhythmia, with or without mental retardation, defines West's syndrome. West's syndrome is not uncommon; the incidence is considered to be 0 16-0-42 per...
متن کاملThe latest on infantile spasms.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article reviews the most significant advances in the field of infantile spasm during the past year, with emphasis on best practise for treatment, and on some new etiological genetic and metabolic causes for the spasms, and new advances in the knowledge of tuberous sclerosis. RECENT FINDINGS Up-to-date information comparing corticotrophin, oral steroids and vigabatrin sh...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Epilepsia
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0013-9580,1528-1167
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1998.tb01274.x