Infantile Spasms Treated with the Ketogenic Diet
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2010 Researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD have evaluated the efficacy of the ketogenic diet in the treatment of 104 consecutive infants with infantile spasms (IS) and hypsarrhythmia on EEG.
J Gordon Millichap
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Infantile spasms: hypothesis-driven therapy and pilot human infant experiments using corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor antagonists. [PDF]
, 1999 Background and rationaleInfantile spasms (IS) are an age-specific seizure disorder occurring in 1:2,000 infants and associated with mental retardation in approximately 90% of affected individuals. The costs of IS in terms of loss of lifetime productivity
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West Syndrome in South Iran: Electro-Clinical Manifestations [PDF]
, 2013 How to Cite This Article: Asadi-Pooya AA, Sharifzade M. West Syndrome in South Iran: Electro-Clinical Manifestations. Iran J Child Neurol. 2013 Summer; 7(3): 40-44.ObjectiveWe aimed to determine the clinical and electroencephalographic (EEG ...
ASADI-POOYA, ALI Akabar +1 more
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High Dose ACTH for Infantile Spasms
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1989 The efficacy and plasma levels of ACTH and Cortisol were studied in 15 children with infantile spasms and hypsarrhythmia using a high dose (150 IU/M2/D ACTH) and are reported from the Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham School ...
J Gordon Millichap
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Infantile Spasm: A Review Article [PDF]
, 2014 How to Cite This Article: Taghdiri MM, Nemati H. Infantile Spasm: A Review Article. Iran J Child Neurol. 2014 Summer;8(3): 1-5.AbstractObjectiveInfantile spasm (IS) is a convulsive disease characterized by brief, symmetric axial muscle contraction (neck,
NEMATI, Hamid, TAGHDIRI, Mohammad Mahdi
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Markedly Elevated Nitrate/Nitrite Levels in the Cerebrospinal Fluid of Children with Progressive Encephalopathy with Edema, Hypsarrhythmia, and Optic Atrophy (PEHO Syndrome) [PDF]
, 2000 Sampsa Vanhatalo, Raili Riikonen
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West Syndrome Case of Unknown Cause of Difficult Treatment [PDF]
, 2017 West syndrome is an age-dependent epileptic encephalopathy, is a kind of catastrophic epilepsy in the first year of life, characterized by the electroclinical triad of epileptic spasms, delayed psychomotor development, and hypsarrhythmia on the ...
Berríos C
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Effect of ACTH Therapy for Epileptic Spasms without Hypsarrhythmia [PDF]
, 2005 Hirokazu Oguni +6 more
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Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1991 The results of surgical removal of a porencephalic cyst in an 18-month old child with infantile spasms and hypsarrhythmia are reported from the Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, VA Medical Center and University of Florida; the State University ...
J Gordon Millichap
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Functional network and spectral analysis of clinical EEG data to identify quantitative biomarkers and classify brain disorders [PDF]
, 2016 Many cognitive and neurological disorders today, such as Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and various forms of epilepsy such as infantile spasms (IS), manifest as changes in voltage activity recorded in scalp electroencephalograms (EEG).
Matlis, Sean Eben Hill
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