… Hormonal therapy and ketogenic diet are widely used also in combination with (classical …
in our search the MeSH term “West syndrome” vs. “infantile spasm syndrome”, the results were …

… Three studies comparing vigabatrin and ACTH and 1 study comparing vigabatrin with
hormonal therapy were included in this review. Vigevano and Cilio conducted a crossover study (…

… Ito et al 2 documented that lower-dose ACTH therapy was as effective to control … West
syndrome treated with ACTH therapy to evaluate the efficacy and adverse effects of ACTH therapy …

… Long‐term adrenocorticotropic therapy (LT‐ACTH), which consisted of 2‐4 weeks … hormone
(ACTH) and subsequent months of weekly injections, was tried for relapsed West syndrome (…

… treatment group and 117 in the other group), and a serious reaction occurred in 33 of these
patients (16 in the hormonal therapy group and 17 in the combined therapy group). Infections …

… QOL in West syndrome. … West Syndrome; treatment with more than 2 anti-seizure medications,
lower ILAE class of epilepsy control, and initial type of treatment with hormonal therapy. …

… serial electroencephalographic (EEG) findings can predict relapse of epileptic spasms after
synthetic adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) therapy in patients with West syndrome (WS). …

Objective The efficacy and adverse effects of conventional dose and low dose adrenocorticotrophic
hormone (ACTH) therapy for West syndrome (WS) were compared in order to identify …

… Infants suffer from a severe epileptic encephalopathy known as West syndrome (WS).
Treatment with adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) indicates the involvement of the gut-brain …

… hormone (ACTH) therapy is effective for West syndrome; … in 5 Japanese patients with West
syndrome, injected with ACTH for … West syndrome is an age-specific epileptic encephalopathy …