Theophylline-associated seizures and their clinical characterizations

Pediatrics International

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 95-98

  Korematsu, Seigo ^a   Miyahara, Hiroaki ^a   Nagakura, Tomokazu ^a   Suenobu, Soichi ^a   Izumi, Tatsuro ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bronchial asthma; Cerebral hypoperfusion; Partial seizures; Theophylline associated seizures; Unilateral seizures

Indexed keywords

THEOPHYLLINE;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRAIN HEMANGIOMA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVULSION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; FEVER; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THEOPHYLLINE BLOOD LEVEL;

BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; THEOPHYLLINE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 39049171188     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.2007.02524.x     Document Type: Article

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