Seizures, encephalopathy, and vaccines: Experience in the national vaccine injury compensation program

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 576-581

  Lateef, Tarannum M ^a   Johann Liang, Rosemary ^b   Kaulas, Himanshu ^a   Hasan, Rakibul ^a   Williams, Karen ^b   Caserta, Vito ^b   Nelson, Karin B ^a,c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensation; Diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and tetanus; DPT; Injury; Program; Severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy; SMEI; Vaccine; VICP

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA TETANUS TOXOID; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BRAIN DISEASE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD ABSENCE EPILEPSY; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; LEUKODYSTROPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MICROCEPHALY; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; NOONAN SYNDROME; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEVERE MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY IN INFANCY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; WEST SYNDROME; WHITE MATTER INJURY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CLINICAL TRIAL; INCIDENCE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURES; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; VACCINES;

EID: 84924548473     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: 10976833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2014.10.054     Document Type: Article

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