Long-term Cognitive Outcomes of a Cohort of Children with Cryptogenic Infantile Spasms Treated with High-dose Adrenocorticotropic Hormone

Epilepsia

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 255-262

  Kivity, Sara ^a   Lerman, Pinchas ^c   Ariel, Raya ^a   Danziger, Yardena ^a,b   Mimouni, Marc ^a,b   Shinnar, Shlomo ^d  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ACTH; Cryptogenic infantile spasms; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; PREDNISONE; TETRACOSACTIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COGNITION; CUSHINGOID SYNDROME; DETERIORATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG MEGADOSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EVALUATION; GASTROENTERITIS; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; INFECTION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OTITIS MEDIA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; STANDARDIZATION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; COSYNTROPIN; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDNISONE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1542513925     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.30503.x     Document Type: Article

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