Effects of acetazolamide on epileptic apnea in migrating partial seizures in infancy

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 96, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 185-189

  Irahara, Kaori ^a   Saito, Yoshiaki ^a   Sugai, Kenji ^a   Nakagawa, Eiji ^a   Saito, Takashi ^a   Komaki, Hirofumi ^a   Nabatame, Shin ^a   Kaneko, Yuu ^a   Hotate, Mamiko ^b   Sasaki, Masayuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Kawaguchi Municipal Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetazolamide; Apnea; Malignant migrating partial seizures; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; DIAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; FATTY ACID; LAMOTRIGINE; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; POTASSIUM BROMIDE; VALPROIC ACID; ZONISAMIDE;

APNEA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BROMODERMA; CASE REPORT; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CYANOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC APNEA; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FATTY ACID DESATURATION; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MIGRATING PARTIAL SEIZURE IN INFANCY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ANTICONVULSANTS; APNEA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 80052822710     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: 18726844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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