Current trends in the treatment of infantile spasms

CY Tsao - Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
… Citation1 Most of the infantile spasms are symptomatic and 9… Citation2 West syndrome is
diagnosed when infantile spasmsWest syndrome resulted in cessation of infantile spasms in 2 …

The idiopathic form of West syndrome

F Vigevano, L Fusco, R Cusmai, D Claps, S Ricci… - …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
… of 31 children with cryptogenic West syndrome (WS), selected … Long term prognosis after
infantile spasms. Statistical study … Incidence and etiology of infantile spasms from 1960 to 1976…

Treatment of West syndrome

L Cvitanović-Sojat, R Gjergja, Z Sabol… - Acta Medica Croatica …, 2005 - europepmc.org
… The aim of our study was to evaluate the efficacy of the control of infantile spasms using
synthetic ACTH or vigabatrin in newly diagnosed cases and to correlate it with the underlyning …

Treatment of West syndrome

Y Sakakihara - Brain and Development, 2011 - Elsevier
… compared the recommended treatment regimens for West syndrome or infantile spasms. …
” was used rather than West syndrome, though he wrote that “infantile spasms” was used as an …

Mechanism of tonic spasms in West syndrome viewed from ictal SPECT findings

K Haginoya, M Munakata, H Yokoyama, R Kato… - Brain and …, 2001 - Elsevier
West syndrome and asymmetric spasms, probably because of the small number of patients
in this study. The important result in our study is that asymmetric spasms … in infantile spasms

[HTML][HTML] Treatment and long term outcome in West syndrome: the clinical reality. A multicentre follow up study

L Lagae, H Verhelst, B Ceulemans, L De Meirleir… - Seizure, 2010 - Elsevier
… We systematically reviewed the files of 51 infants presenting with infantile spasms and
hypsarrhythmia in order to study the initial treatment strategies and the long term outcome. 80% of …

West syndrome and its related epileptic syndromes

Y Ohtsuka - Epilepsia, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
West syndrome (WS) is a triad of features that characterize a particular type of epileptic
seizures: infantile spasms, … Infantile spasms appear in series in almost all of the cases. Another …

A proposed diagnostic approach for infantile spasms based on a spectrum of variable aetiology

AL Poulat, G Lesca, D Sanlaville, G Blanchard… - European Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
… In this study, we have investigated the aetiology of West syndrome in a series of 80 patients,
in the light of progress in genetics during the last decade. The population in our study is …

Infantile spasms and West syndrome: anatomo-electroclinical patterns and etiology

R Guerrini, S Pellacani - … in Epileptic Spasms and West syndrome, 2007 - books.google.com
Infantile spasms (IS) are a distinctive … to infantile spams, configuring West syndrome. The
seizure type in itself, irrespective from the age and clinical context, is defined as epileptic spasm

Infantile spasms

EH Kossoff - The neurologist, 2010 - journals.lww.com
… The diagnosis of West syndrome is confirmed by EEG, and a 30-minute record is often
sufficient. The classic pattern identified, hypsarrhythmia, describes the high voltage, chaotic …