Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy is rarely effective as the initial treatment in West syndrome: a retrospective study of 70 patients

R Matsuura, S Hamano, Y Hirata, A Oba… - Journal of the …, 2016 - Elsevier
… spasms did not response to first-line treatment, we recommend IVIG therapy for West syndrome.
Our study demonstrates the most reliable information of IVIG therapy for West syndrome. …

[PDF][PDF] Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy is rarely effective as the initial treatment in West syndrome: A retrospective study of 70 patients.

松浦隆樹 - Journal of the neurological sciences: official bulletin of …, 2018 - ir.jikei.ac.jp
… spasms did not response to first-line treatment, we recommend IVIG therapy for West syndrome.
Our study demonstrates the most reliable information of IVIG therapy for West syndrome. …

Alteration of cytokines in serum and cerebrospinal fluid before and after high-dose immunoglobulin therapy in patients with West syndrome.

R Matsuura, SI Hamano, Y Hirata, A Oba… - No to Hattatsu= Brain …, 2016 - europepmc.org
… of West syndrome and mechanism of immunoglobulin therapy for this syndrome, we …
before and after high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) therapy in patients with West

[HTML][HTML] Impact of immunoglobulin therapy in pediatric disease: a review of immune mechanisms

PH Wong, KM White - Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology, 2016 - Springer
… mechanisms in the pathogenesis of childhood epilepsy, and IVIG has been used to treat
West syndrome, Lennox Gastaut syndrome, early myoclonic encephalopathy, and Rasmussen …

Efficacy and safety of pyridoxal in West syndrome: a retrospective study

R Matsuura, S Hamano, J Kubota, A Daida… - Brain and …, 2019 - Elsevier
… pyridoxal therapy as a kind of challenge therapy during the … and etiologies of West syndrome
and immunological risks … with ACTH therapy, VGB, intravenous immunoglobulin therapy, …

[HTML][HTML] Case Report: Rituximab Improved epileptic spasms and EEG abnormalities in an infant with West Syndrome and Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis Associated with …

G Kawano, T Yokochi, R Nishikomori… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… with infantile spasms/West syndrome with autoimmune encephalitis, … who later developed
infantile spasms/West syndrome. … pulse therapies and later developed infantile spasms/West

Immunoglobulin Use in Childhood Epilepsy: Literature Review

W Elsayed, YA Khattab, RA Khattab - International Journal of Health Sciences - neliti.com
immunoglobulin in West syndrome and the tolerable side effects of this therapy may enable
intravenous immunoglobulin to replace adrenocorticotropic hormone therapy. Immunologic …

[PDF][PDF] West Syndrome Case of Unknown Cause of Difficult Treatment

C Berríos - Int J Pediat Health Care Adv, 2017 - core.ac.uk
… (WS) refers to a form (a subset) of Infantile Spasms Syndrome (ISs), … Infant spasms and West
Syndrome represent the most … West Syndrome and started therapy with immunoglobulins. …

[HTML][HTML] Lack of efficacy of high-titered immunoglobulin in patients with West Nile virus central nervous system disease

JW Gnann Jr, A Agrawal, J Hart… - Emerging infectious …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… We compared Omr-IgG-am, an immunoglobulin product with high titers of anti-WNV antibody,
with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) and normal saline to assess safety and efficacy in …

Systematic review of immunoglobulin use in paediatric neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders

J Gadian, E Kirk, K Holliday, M Lim… - … Medicine & Child …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… The paediatric study included four patients with West syndrome for which IVIG is a
recognized treatment, making it difficult to draw conclusions about IVIG effectiveness in other …