Infantile spasms and cytomegalovirus infection: Antiviral and antiepileptic treatment

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 684-692

  Dunin Wasowicz, Dorota ^a   Kasprzyk Obara, Jolanta ^a   Jurkiewicz, Elzbieta ^a   Kapusta, Monika ^a   Milewska Bobula, Bogumila ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; CORTICOTROPIN; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN; VIRUS DNA;

ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; QUADRIPLEGIA; SEIZURE; TREATMENT DURATION; URINALYSIS;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GANCICLOVIR; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUADRIPLEGIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIGABATRIN;

EID: 34548232275     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2007.00684.x     Document Type: Article

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