Effective immunoglobulin therapy for brief tonic seizures in methylmalonic acidemia

Brain and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 502-505

  Aikoh, Hiroshi ^a   Sasaki, Masayuki ^a   Sugai, Kenji ^a   Yoshida, Hiroshi ^b   Sakuragawa, Norio ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Shonai Hospital   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Immunoglobulin therapy; Inborn error; Methylmalonic acidemia; West syndrome

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIET THERAPY; DRUG EFFICACY; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFANT; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; METHYLMALONIC ACIDEMIA; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; TONIC SEIZURE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; METHYLMALONIC ACID;

EID: 0030732673     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(97)00059-4     Document Type: Article

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