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Ketogenic diet for infantile epileptic spasms

Epilepsia Open
Abstract Approximately half of all cases of Infantile Epileptic Spasms Syndrome (IESS) do not respond to vigabatrin and hormonal therapies. There is no clear consensus as to the second‐line therapy for IESS.
Morris H. Scantlebury, Anamika Choudhary, Andy Cheuk‐Him Ng, Cezar Gavrilovici   +3 more
wiley   +4 more sources

Epileptic spasms relapse is associated with response latency but not conventional attributes of post‐treatment EEG

Epilepsia Open
Objective Relapse of epileptic spasms after initial treatment of infantile epileptic spasms syndrome (IESS) is common. However, past studies of small cohorts have inconsistently linked relapse risk to etiology, treatment modality, and EEG features upon ...
Emmi Deckard, Rujuta Sathe, David Tabibzadeh, Aria Terango, Aran Groves, Rajsekar R. Rajaraman, Hiroki Nariai, Shaun A. Hussain   +7 more
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Epilepsy surgery for children with epileptic spasms: A systematic review and meta‐analysis with focus on predictors and outcomes

Epilepsia Open
To conduct a systematic review of the literature regarding rates and predictors of favorable seizure outcome after resective surgery for epileptic spasms (ES) in pediatric patients.
Taylor Kolosky, Andrea Goldstein Shipper, Kai Sun, Busra Tozduman, Soren Bentzen, Ahsan N. Moosa, Gozde Erdemir   +6 more
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Risk of autism spectrum disorder in children with infantile epileptic spasms syndrome: a retrospective study in a single center in Brazil

Jornal de Pediatria
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder and its possible correlations with clinical characteristics in patients with infantile epileptic spasms syndrome in a single center in Brazil.
Marília Barbosa de Matos, Paulo Breno Noronha Liberalesso, Tiago dos Santos Bara, Paula Carolina Martins Alves Gomes, Bianca Simone Zeigelboim, Jair Mendes Marques, Mara L. Cordeiro   +6 more
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Landscape of genetic infantile epileptic spasms syndrome—A multicenter cohort of 124 children from India

Epilepsia Open, 2023
Objective Literature on the genotypic spectrum of Infantile Epileptic Spasms Syndrome (IESS) in children is scarce in developing countries. This multicentre collaboration evaluated the genotypic and phenotypic landscape of genetic IESS in Indian children.
Balamurugan Nagarajan, Vykuntaraju K. Gowda, Sangeetha Yoganathan, Indar Kumar Sharawat, Kavita Srivastava, Nitish Vora, Rahul Badheka, Sumita Danda, Umesh Kalane, Anupriya Kaur, Priyanka Madaan, Sanjiv Mehta, Sandeep Negi, Prateek Kumar Panda, Surekha Rajadhyaksha, Arushi Gahlot Saini, Lokesh Saini, Siddharth Shah, Varunvenkat M. Srinivasan, Renu Suthar, Maya Thomas, Sameer Vyas, Naveen Sankhyan, Jitendra Kumar Sahu   +23 more
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First‐choice hormonal therapies for children with infantile epileptic spasms syndrome in South Asia: A network meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials

Epilepsia Open
Considering the peculiar challenges with infantile epileptic spasms syndrome (IESS) in South Asia and a wide variation in the usage of hormonal therapies, we compared the efficacy and safety of various hormonal therapies for children with IESS in South ...
Nagita Devi, Priyanka Madaan, Nidhun Kandoth, Parth Lal, Jitendra Kumar Sahu, Dipika Bansal   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

EEG‐based spatiotemporal dynamics of fast ripple networks and hubs in infantile epileptic spasms

Epilepsia Open, 2023
Objective Infantile epileptic spasms (IS) are epileptic seizures that are associated with increased risk for developmental impairments, adult epilepsies, and mortality.
Ioana M. A. Samfira, Aristea S. Galanopoulou, Hiroki Nariai, Jonathan M. Gursky, Solomon L. Moshé, Berj L. Bardakjian   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Clinical characteristics of children with infantile epileptic spasms syndrome from a tertiary-care hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Heliyon, 2023
Background: We describe patient characteristics and response to initial treatment in a large case series of children presenting with infantile epileptic spasms syndrome to a tertiary-care hospital with a pediatric neurology service in Bangladesh.
Christina Briscoe Abath, Narayan Chandra Saha, Seikh Azimul Hoque, Ariful Islam, Yamin Shahriar Chowdhury, Mosammat Shameem Ara Begum, Tahera Sultana Davalji Kanjiker, Christopher J. Yuskaitis, Chellamani Harini, Md Badrul Alam, Quazi Deen Mohammed, Maitreyi Mazumdar   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Autism and mild epilepsy associated with a de novo missense pathogenic variant in the GTPase effector domain of DNM1

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Dynamin 1 is a GTPase protein involved in synaptic vesicle fission, which facilitates the exocytosis of neurotransmitters necessary for normal signaling. Pathogenic variants in the DNM1 gene are associated with intractable epilepsy, often manifested as infantile spasms at onset, developmental delay, and a movement disorder, and are located in ...
Davide Mei, Elena Parrini, Claudia Bianchini, Maria Luisa Ricci, Renzo Guerrini   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Infantile epileptic spasms syndrome as an initial presentation in infantile choroid plexus papilloma: A case report

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022
We present an interesting report of a 5-month-old infant with epileptic spasms and developmental delay who presented with non-isolated ventriculomegaly in utero and whose brain magnetic resonance imaging revealed right ventricular choroid plexus ...
Faliang Zhou, Yu Li, Lixue Shen, Hongxin Yao, Xinlin Hou   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source