The relationship of seizure activity and chronic epilepsy in early infancy and short-term neurodevelopmental outcome following fetal myelomeningocele closure

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 140-143

  Danzer, E ^a   Finkel, R ^a   Gerdes, M ^a   Schwartz, E M S ^a   Rintoul, N N ^a   Adzick, N S ^a   Johnson, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

epilepsy; fetal surgery; myelomeningocele; neurodevelopmental outcome; seizure; spina bifida; ventriculomegaly

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; ETIRACETAM; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

APNEA; ARTICLE; BAYLEY SCALES OF INFANT DEVELOPMENT II; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN INJURY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITION; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EEG ABNORMALITY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FETAL MYELOMENINGOCELE; FETUS; FETUS SURGERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANCY; INFANT; JUVENILE EPILEPSY SYNDROME; KETOGENIC DIET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; ONSET AGE; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE; TODDLER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 77957150926     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1263164     Document Type: Article

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