The risk of lower mental outcome in infantile spasms increases after three weeks of hypsarrhythmia duration

Epilepsia

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2202-2205

  Primec, Zvonka Rener ^a   Stare, Janez ^b   Neubauer, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Children; Duration of hypsarrhythmia; Infantile spasms; Mental outcome

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; PYRIDOXINE; VIGABATRIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE OF ONSET; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33845605938     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00888.x     Document Type: Article

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