Seizure outcome in infantile spasms-A retrospective study

Epilepsia

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 746-752

  Mohamed, Basheer Peer ^a,b,c   Scott, Rod C ^a   Desai, Nivedita ^a   Gutta, Pranathi ^a   Patil, Shekhar ^a  

^a Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c YOUNG EPILEPSY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cryptogenic spasms; Hormonal therapy; Steroids; Symptomatic spasms; Treatment; Vigabatrin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; ETIRACETAM; PREDNISOLONE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOMATIC EPILEPSY; SYMPTOMATIC SPASM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTICONVULSANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPASMS, INFANTILE; STEROIDS; VIGABATRIN;

EID: 79953721949     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02963.x     Document Type: Article

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