Prognostic Utility of Clinical Epilepsy Severity Score Versus Pretreatment Hypsarrhythmia Scoring in Children With West Syndrome

Clinical EEG and Neuroscience

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 280-287

  Sehgal, Rachna ^a,b   Gulati, Sheffali ^a   Sapra, Savita ^a   Tripathi, Manjari ^a   Pandey, Ravinder Mohan ^a   Kabra, Madhulika ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b SAFDARJUNG HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

E Chess; epilepsy; Kramer Global Score; motor; neurodevelopment; outcomes; West syndrome

Indexed keywords

ACYLCARNITINE; CORTICOTROPIN; LACTIC ACID; PREDNISOLONE; VIGABATRIN;

AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ASSESSMENT; EARLY CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY SEVERITY SCORE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYNDROME; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FOLLOW UP; GROSS MOTOR FUNCTION CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFANTILE SPASM; KRAMER GLOBAL SCORE OF HYPSARRHYTHMIA SEVERITY; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SPASTICITY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TUBERCULIN TEST; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; INFANT; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPASMS, INFANTILE;

EID: 85020759380     PISSN: 15500594     EISSN: 21695202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1550059416662425     Document Type: Article

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