A new trial liposteroid (dexamethasone palmitate) therapy for intractable epileptic seizures in infancy

Brain and Development

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 421-424

  Yamamoto, Hitoshi ^a   Fukuda, Miho ^a   Miyamoto, Yusaku ^a   Murakami, Hiroshi ^a   Kamiyama, Noriko ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dexamethasone palmitate; Infants; Intractable epileptic seizures; Liposteroid

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE 21 PALMITATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INFANT; INFECTION; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MUSCLE SPASM; RECURRENCE RISK; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; WEST SYNDROME;

ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEXAMETHASONE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34248592682     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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