… Infantile spasms are characterized by age-specific expression of epileptic spasms and …
Other epilepsies or autism often ensue especially in symptomatic IS (SIS). Cortical or subcortical …

… Because of the risk of hormonal therapy and the almost certain poor developmental outcome
in symptomatic infantile spasms, we reserve the initial use of ACTH for cryptogenic cases. …

… one and defines symptomatic infantile spasms as those patients with either abnormal
development and/or a clear etiology for the infantile spasms and cryptogenic spasms as those …

… has the field of infantile spasms research been so rapidly … dread among neurologists than
infantile spasms. First described … % with “symptomatic” infantile spasms (previously identified …

… In our study symptomatic infantile spasms were predominant and were associated with
consanguinity (66.6%), developmental delay (89%) and microcephaly. Generalized tonic -clonic …

… with infantile spasms at a significance level of P < .1 and with ≤10% missing data among
participants who developed infantile spasms. … in the final model developed infantile spasms (ie, …

Background: We studied the clinical, neuroradiological and EEG characteristics of patients
with infantile spasms (IS) who showed focal features to reveal their long-term prognoses and …

We reviewed the outcome (developmental, neurologic, and seizure) and prognostic factors
of 57 cases of infantile spasms (17 cryptogenic, 40 symptomatic). The mean developmental …

… Cryptogenic versus symptomatic infantile spasm Twenty-five studies included cryptogenic
and symptomatic IS, 10 studies reported only symptomatic IS and 7 studies reported only …

… From an etiological standpoint, infantile spasms were documented as symptomatic in 190
(58%) and cryptogenic 138 (42%). All the patients had abnormal interictal and/or ictal EEG …