Treatment of Infantile Spasms with High‐Dosage Vitamin B6

Epilepsia

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 757-763

  Pietz, J ^a   Benninger, C ^a   Schafer H ^a   Sontheimer, D ^a   Mittermaier, G ^a   Rating, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Infantile spasms; Seizures; Vitamin B6 Anticonvulsants Child Prognosis; West syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTACID AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LIVER ENZYME; PHENOBARBITAL; PYRIDOXINE; VALPROIC ACID;

BRAIN INJURY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEMORRHAGIC GASTRITIS; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; WEST SYNDROME;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PYRIDOXINE; RECURRENCE; SPASMS, INFANTILE;

EID: 0027326674     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1993.tb00458.x     Document Type: Article

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