Ganaxolone for treating intractable infantile spasms: A multicenter, open-label, add-on trial

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 42, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 133-139

  Kerrigan, John F ^a   Shields, W Donald ^b   Nelson, Teresita Y ^c   Bluestone, Daniel L ^d   Dodson, W Edwin ^e   Bourgeois, Blaise F D ^e   Pellock, John M ^f   Morton, Lawrence D ^f   Monaghan, Edward P ^g  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Carolina Neurological Clinic   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g Department of Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism   (United States)

Author keywords

Epalon; Epilepsy; Ganaxolone; Infantile spasms; Neurosteroid

Indexed keywords

GANAXOLONE; ORA PLUS; ORA SWEET;

ARTICLE; BRONCHITIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NERVOUSNESS; OTITIS MEDIA; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SOMNOLENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PREGNANOLONE; SPASMS, INFANTILE;

EID: 0033759542     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(00)00170-4     Document Type: Article

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