White matter abnormality correlates with developmental and seizure outcomes in west syndrome of unknown etiology

J Natsume, C Ogawa, T Fukasawa… - American Journal …, 2016 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
relapse or persistent seizures and 10 had abnormal findings on EEG at 12 months. Of 8
patients with PET hypometabolism at 24 months, 5 had seizure relapse or persistent seizures

West syndrome in a patient with Schinzel-Giedion syndrome

F Miyake, Y Kuroda, T Naruto, I Ohashi… - Journal of Child …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
… We present a 9-month-old girl affected by West syndrome with Schinzel-Giedion syndrome.
… The patient is currently 9 months old and her seizures relapsed 5 weeks after ACTH therapy …

West syndrome–the University of Hong Kong experience (1970–2000)

V Wong - Brain and Development, 2001 - Elsevier
… In a 12-month-old girl with intractable seizures with good initial response to VGB and having
a relapse 6 months later, PET scan of the brain showed focal hypometabolism in her left …

Treatment of epileptic encephalopathies

A McTague, JH Cross - CNS drugs, 2013 - Springer
… on the treatment of West syndrome, continuous spike … seizures [35]. A recent paper described
visual field testing between 6 and 12 years of age in children treated for West syndrome in …

Developmental features in West syndrome

T Deonna, H Chappuis, D Gubser-Mercati… - … and West syndrome, 2007 - books.google.com
West syndrome is considered the prototype of “epileptic encephalopathy” a term implying
that the epileptic activity itself (and not only the underlying brain disorder or antiepileptic …

Neuropsychological outcome in children with West syndrome: a “human model” for autism

I Jambaqué, L Mottron, C Chiron - Neuropsychology of Childhood Epilepsy, 2001 - Springer
… years, none showed a relapse to seizures and all had normal IQ … clearly present before the
first seizures in a number of patients … When on the contrary seizures are rapidly controlled by …

Antiepileptic drug treatment of West syndrome

M Ito - Epilepsia, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
… The initial seizure control was evaluated as follows: .excellent when there was total cessation
of seizures; good when seizure frequency was decreased by 50%; and poor when seizure

[HTML][HTML] Idiopathic west syndrome followed by childhood absence epilepsy

N Specchio, M Trivisano, F Vigevano, L Fusco - Seizure, 2010 - Elsevier
West Syndrome (WS) is a severe epileptic encephalopathy occurring in the first year of life.
According the ILAE classification of epileptic seizures … complete recovery from seizures and a …

Thyrotropin-releasing hormone: role in the treatment of West syndrome and related epileptic encephalopathies

Y Takeuchi, T Takano, J Abe, S Takikita, M Ohno - Brain and Development, 2001 - Elsevier
… new strategy for treating West syndrome and Lennox–Gastaut syndrome prior to ACTH …
Considering West syndrome alone, they reported that a relapse of seizures occurred in 67% …

[PDF][PDF] Clinical features and treatment outcome of West syndrome patients treated in a tertiary care hospital: Bangladesh perspective

K FATEMA - 2018 - researchgate.net
… : West syndrome (WS) is a catastrophic epilepsy syndrome with … Mean ages of onset of seizure
and first treatment were 4.97±… with vigabatrin had seizure relapse during the initial therapy …