Epilepsy in children with infantile thiamine deficiency

Neurology

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 828-833

  Fattal Valevski, A ^a   Bloch Mimouni, A ^b   Kivity, S ^c   Heyman, E ^d   Brezner, A ^e   Strausberg, R ^c   Inbar, D ^c,f   Kramer, U ^a   Goldberg Stern, H ^c  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b LOEWENSTEIN REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^c SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^d ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^f TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOBAZAM; CLONAZEPAM; CORTICOTROPIN; ETIRACETAM; FELBAMATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PLECONARIL; PROPRANOLOL; STEROID; THIAMINE; TOPIRAMATE; UBIQUINONE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; KETOGENIC DIET; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SOYBEAN MILK; SYMPTOM; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; TONIC SEIZURE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; INFANT; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FORMULA; THIAMINE; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY;

EID: 70349562379     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181b121f5     Document Type: Article

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