Major adverse events associated with treatment of infantile spasms

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1360-1366

  Partikian, Arthur ^a,b   Mitchell, Wendy G ^a,b  

^a WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenocorticotropic hormone; Antiepileptic drugs; Infantile spasms

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CLONIDINE; CORTICOTROPIN; PREDNISONE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN; HORMONE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OSTEOPENIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT GAIN; BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG EFFECT; FOLLOW UP; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANTICONVULSANTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HORMONES; HUMANS; INFANT; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 40349108589     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073807310988     Document Type: Article

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