Infantile spasms: review of the literature and personal experience

A Fois - Italian journal of pediatrics, 2010 - Springer
… in 3 patients with idiopathic West syndrome, after gradual withdrawal of both drugs. In
one patient with West syndrome associated with TSC there was only a partial improvement [126]. …

Spasms in clusters in epilepsies other than typical West syndrome

Y Ohtsuka, K Kobayashi, T Ogino, E Oka - Brain and Development, 2001 - Elsevier
West syndrome (WS) is characterized by three distinctive features: infantile spasms, …
Infantile spasms usually appear in clusters. Another remarkable characteristic is its age-dependency…

Infantile Spasms/West Syndrome

R Riikonen - Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2021 - Springer
The International Classification of Mental and Behavioral Disorders–10th Edition is used by
over 70% of the psychiatrists in the world. Although the DSM-IV and ICD-10 definitions for …

Partial seizures in West syndrome

Y Ohtsuka, I Murashima, T Asano, E Oka… - Epilepsia, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Infantile spasms also have been suppressed by surgical treatment of concomitant brain
tumors (1 1,12) and of porencephalic cysts (13,14). These observations suggest that cortical …

Infantile spasms: opportunities to improve care

R Messer, KG Knupp - Seminars in Neurology, 2020 - thieme-connect.com
Infantile spasm (IS) is a severe epileptic encephalopathy of early childhood that was first …
[1] Historically, the classic triad of West syndrome included clinical seizures (epileptic spasm, ES…

Infantile Spasms and West Syndrome

MJ Berg - Archives of Neurology, 1996 - jamanetwork.com
… This monograph is an authoritative account of infantile spasms, a troubling and all too …
epileptic spasms are defined as a type of seizure and infantile spasms as the epilepsy syndrome

Epileptic spasms in clusters and associated syndromes other than West syndrome: A study of 48 patients

RH Caraballo, S Fortini, G Reyes, AC Ruiz… - Epilepsy Research, 2016 - Elsevier
syndrome predominantly in infancy, and in the second subgroup ES was one more seizure
type associated with an epileptic encephalopathy other than West syndromeinfantile spasms

Psychoeducational implications of West Syndrome (infantile spasm) for primary school children

C Chapple, W Kinsella - Educational Psychology in Practice, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
… While most children with a prior diagnosis of West Syndrome … , with a prior diagnosis of West
Syndrome, who were attending … of a previous diagnosis of West Syndrome which need to be …

The treatment of West syndrome: a Cochrane review of the literature to December 2000

E Hancock, JP Osborne, P Milner - Brain and Development, 2001 - Elsevier
West syndrome, also known as infantile spasms or salaam spasms, was first described by Dr
West … drug therapy to infants and children with West syndrome were included in this review, …

Treatment of infantile spasms

EC Hancock, JP Osborne… - Cochrane Database of …, 2013 - cochranelibrary.com
Infantile spasms (West's Syndrome) is a syndrome that includes a peculiar type of epileptic
seizure—the spasms—and an … basis for infantile spasms, and treatment remains problematic. …