The efficacy of moderate-to-high dose oral prednisolone versus low-to-moderate dose intramuscular corticotropin for improvement of hypsarrhythmia in west syndrome: A randomized, single-blind, parallel clinical trial

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 24-30

  Wanigasinghe, Jithangi ^a   Arambepola, Carukshi ^a   Sri Ranganathan, Shalini ^a   Sumanasena, Samanmali ^a   Muhandiram, Eindrini C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

ACTH; hypsarrhythmia; prednisolone; West syndrome

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; PREDNISOLONE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CRYING; CUSHING DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DYSPEPSIA; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INCREASED APPETITE; INFANT; INFECTION; IRRITABILITY; LETHARGY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN; WEST SYNDROME; COMPLICATION; DOSE RESPONSE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SPASMS, INFANTILE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREDNISOLONE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SPASMS, INFANTILE;

EID: 84902463381     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: 18735150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2014.03.014     Document Type: Article

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