Hyponatremia associated with carbamazepine and oxcarbazepine therapy: a review

TH Van Amelsvoort, R Bakshi, CB Devaux… - …, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
Hyponatremia, an electrolyte disturbance usually without clinical significance, may
sometimes lead to serious complications when overlooked or not treated appropriately. One …

Infantile epileptic encephalopathy with hypsarrhythmia (infantile spasms/West syndrome)

RA Hrachovy, JD Frost Jr - Journal of clinical neurophysiology, 2003 - journals.lww.com
Infantile spasms is a unique disorder peculiar to infancy and early childhood. In this article,
the clinical manifestations and electroencephalographic features of the disorder are …

Infantile spasms: II. Lenticular nuceli and brain stem activation on positron emission tomography

HT Chugani, DA Shewmon, R Sankar… - Annals of Neurology …, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
Infantile spasms are generalized sezures specific to early infancy, and are believed to result
from complex cortical‐subcortical interactions during a critical period of development. We …

Surgery for intractable infantile spasms: neuroimaging perspectives

HT Chugani, DA Shewmon, WD Shields, R Sankar… - …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
Twenty‐three infants and children underwent cortical resection (n= 15) or hemispherectomy
(n= 8) for intractable infantile spasms. Infantile spasms were present at the time of surgery in …

Epilepsy surgery in infants

E Wyllie, YG Comair, P Kotagal, S Raja, P Ruggieri - Epilepsia, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: We report 12 infants who had frontal (n= 3), temporal (n= 2), or temporoparieto‐
occipital (n= 2) resection or functional hemispherectomies (n= 5) at age 2.5–29 (mean 15.3) …

Surgical treatment for refractory epileptic spasms: the Detroit series

HT Chugani, M Ilyas, A Kumar, C Juhász… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective We reviewed our experience of surgery for epileptic spasms (ES) with or without
history of infantile spasms. Methods Data were reviewed from 65 (33 male) patients with ES …

Pathogenesis of infantile spasms: a model based on developmental desynchronization

JD Frost Jr, RA Hrachovy - Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, 2005 - journals.lww.com
Infantile spasms is a severe epileptic encephalopathy of infancy. The fundamental cause is
unknown, although a number of predisposing conditions are recognized. In this article, the …

Seizure symptomatology in infants with localization-related epilepsy

JN Acharya, E Wyllie, HO Luders, P Kotagal… - Neurology, 1997 - AAN Enterprises
The clinical characteristics of seizures in adults and children with localization-related
epilepsy have been clearly described and classified, but few data are available based on …

Characteristics of epilepsy in focal cortical dysplasia in infancy

A Lortie, P Plouin, C Chiron, O Delalande, O Dulac - Epilepsy research, 2002 - Elsevier
To describe the poorly known characteristics of epilepsy during infancy in focal cortical
dysplasia (FCD), one of the most frequent cause of infantile epilepsy. All 28 patients with …

Surgery for catastrophic localization‐related epilepsy in infants

E Wyllie - Epilepsia, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Cortical resection or hemispherectomy has been reported to result in cessation or dramatic
reduction of seizures for small numbers of highly selected infants with severe, intractable …