The Electroencephalographic Characterization of Hypsarrhythmia in Older Pediatric Population With Epilepsy Using Computer-Added Quantitative Methods [PDF]
Cureus, 2023 Background Hypsarrhythmia is a classical multifocal electroencephalographic finding in patients of infantile spasm and related epileptic syndromes of early childhood including West syndrome and Otahara syndrome.
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Treatment efficacy for infantile epileptic spasms syndrome in children with trisomy 21 [PDF]
Frontiers in PediatricsBackgroundInfantile Epileptic Spasms Syndrome (IESS) is the most common epilepsy syndrome in children with trisomy 21. First-line standard treatments for IESS include adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), oral corticosteroids, and vigabatrin.
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Infantile epileptic spasms syndrome: an etiologic study of 361 patients with infantile epileptic spasms syndrome [PDF]
Frontiers in PediatricsIntroductionInfantile Epileptic Spasms Syndrome (IESS) typically has a profound impact on the neurodevelopment of patients. The study on IESS indicates possible geographical variation in etiology and a lack of data from China.
Linghui Zhu +8 more
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Brain tumours as an unrecognized etiology of infantile epileptic spasms syndrome (IESS): The role of resective epilepsy surgery [PDF]
Epilepsy & Behavior ReportsBrain tumours are a rare cause of infantile epileptic spasm syndrome (IESS). Epilepsy surgery may be utilized in refractory IESS due to tumours, although reports are limited.
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Clinical Profile of Infants with Hypsarrhythmia [PDF]
Acta Informatica Medica, 2011 The present study was done in order to obtain a baseline profile of infantile spasms and associated neurological disorders.The study included 50 patients with infantile spasm in Queen Rania Hospital for children in Jordan. The following data were obtained: sex, age at onset of spasms, details of seizure, family history of epilepsy, significant pre ...
Wael Khreisat
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Association of Infantile Spasms and Hypsarrhythmia with Primary Microcephaly- Three Case Reports
Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2021 Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology ¦ Volume 24 ¦ Issue 4 ¦ July-August 2021 609 3. Moragas M, Martines-Yelamos S, Majos C, Fernandez-Viladrich P, Rubio F, Arbizu T. Rhombencephalitis: A series of 97 patients. Medicine (Baltimore) 2011;90:256-61.
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Electroclinical Features of Infantile Epileptic Spasms Syndrome [PDF]
Annals of Indian Academy of NeurologyEpileptic spasms are a unique, age-dependent manifestation of epilepsies in infancy and early childhood, commonly occurring as part of infantile epileptic spasms syndrome.
Gozde Erdemir, Ahsan N. Moosa
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Hypsarrhythmia and spasms resolution after Valproic acid discontinuation in an infantile spasm patient [PDF]
Neurosciences, 2019 Several studies have reported a variable benefit of valproic acid for the treatment of infantile spasm. However, valproic acid can also worsen spasms, as occurred with this child who presented with post-traumatic seizure which evolved to spasms.
Mohammed Alsallumi
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Oral Prednisolone vs. IM Corticotropin and Hypsarrhythmia* in West Syndrome [PDF]
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2014 Investigators at University of Columbo, Sri Lanka, studied the efficacy of oral prednisolone (40-60 mg/day) and intramuscular adrenocorticotrophin hormone (40-60 IU synthetic ACTH every other day) for 14 days in improving hypsarrhythmia in children (age ...
J Gordon Millichap, John J Millichap
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EEG before and after total corpus callosotomy for pharmacoresistant infantile spasms: Fast oscillations and slow‐wave connectivity in hypsarrhythmia [PDF]
Epilepsia, 2019 We analyzed the features of fast oscillations (FOs) and connectivity in hypsarrhythmia to identify biomarkers for predicting seizure outcomes after total corpus callosotomy (TCC) in children with pharmacoresistant infantile spasms (IS).
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