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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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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...
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Two patients are presented with muscle spasms in an amputation stump. Neither patient experienced neuropathic pain nor phantom sensations, though phantom sensory phenomena, severe pain, and lack of response to treatment is characteristic of reported cases. One patient, a 75 year old man, has had myoclonic activity of the stump for more than two years, and the other, a 79 year old woman, recover...
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: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
سال: 1894
ISSN: 0022-3018
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-189408000-00021