Psychomotor development following early treatment of severe infantile vitamin B12 deficiency and West syndrome - Is everything fine? A case report and review of literature

Brain and Development

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 347-351

  Glaser, Kirsten ^a   Girschick, Hermann J ^b   Schropp, Christian ^c   Speer, Christian P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Department of Neuropediatrics   (Germany)

^c Department of Paediatrics Dritter Orden Children's Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain damage; Infantile spasms syndrome; Infantile vitamin B12 deficiency; Long term follow up; Neurodevelopmental delay; Psychomotor development; West syndrome

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; HOMOCYSTEINE; METHIONINE; PARIETAL CELL ANTIBODY; SULTIAME;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BREAST FEEDING; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMA; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY INTERVENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH DISORDER; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INFANTILE SPASM; LONG TERM CARE; MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; METHYLMALONIC ACIDURIA; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MYELINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLOR; PANCYTOPENIA; PERNICIOUS ANEMIA; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; SCHILLING TEST; SCHOOL CHILD; TACHYCARDIA; TENDON REFLEX; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WEST SYNDROME; ATROPHY; COMPLICATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; SPASMS, INFANTILE; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

ATROPHY; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; SPASMS, INFANTILE; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84922788997     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: 18727131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2014.05.006     Document Type: Article

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