Treatment of infantile spasms: Results of a population-based study with vigabatrin as the first drug for spasms

Epilepsia

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 950-957

  Granström, Marja Liisa ^a   Gaily, Eija ^a   Liukkonen, Elina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Infantile spasms; Infants; Vigabatrin; West syndrome

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

4-AMINOBUTYRATE TRANSAMINASE; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FINLAND; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALPROIC ACID; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; VIGABATRIN;

EID: 0033021878     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb00802.x     Document Type: Article

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