ACTH therapy for generalized seizures other than spasms

Seizure

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 469-475

  Okumura, Akihisa ^a,b   Tsuji, Takeshi ^b   Kato, Toru ^b   Natsume, Jun ^b   Negoro, Tamiko ^b   Watanabe, Kazuyoshi ^c  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ACTH; Adverse effects; Efficacy; Generalized seizures

Indexed keywords

CLOBAZAM; CLONAZEPAM; CORTICOTROPIN; DIAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ARTICLE; ATONIC SEIZURE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; EDEMA; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; INFECTION; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; IRRITABILITY; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MALE; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIDE EFFECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THRUSH; TONIC SEIZURE;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RECURRENCE; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33748047119     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2006.05.010     Document Type: Article

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