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Infantile spasms (West syndrome): update and resources for pediatricians and providers to share with parents [PDF]
, 2012 Background Infantile spasms (IS; West syndrome) is a severe form of encephalopathy that typically affects infants younger than 2 years old. Pediatricians, pediatric neurologists, and other pediatric health care providers are all potentially key early ...
Gibson, Patricia A. +6 more
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Epileptic spasms - 175 years on: Trying to teach an old dog new tricks [PDF]
, 2017 PURPOSE: This text provides an overview of how the condition "infantile spasms" has evolved in the last 175 years. METHOD: Key references are summarised to assimilate this review.
Ibekwe, RC +2 more
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Use of ACTH and prednisolone in infantile spasms: Experience from a developing country [PDF]
, 2005 SummaryBackground: Adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) and prednisone are both used to treat infantile spasms (IS) in West syndrome. In many countries, ACTH is expensive and difficult to obtain whereas, prednisone or prednisolone are cheap, given orally ...
Appleton +26 more
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Epileptic Encephalopathies, CDKL5 Mutations, and Infantile Spasms
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2012 Researchers at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN performed retrospective chart reviews of 6 children with epilepsy and CDKL5 mutations.
J Gordon Millichap
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X-Linked Mental Retardation and Epilepsy Syndrome
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2002 A kindred of 7 affected male infants with an X-linked mental retardation and epilepsy syndrome (XMRE), distinct from X-linked West and other mental retardation-epilepsy syndromes, is reported from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
J Gordon Millichap
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Cerebrospinal fluid corticotropin and cortisol are reduced in infantile spasms. [PDF]
, 1995 Infantile spasms respond to ACTH, and levels of the hormone in cerebrospinal fluid of untreated infants with this disorder were found to be lower than in age-matched controls. In this study we analyzed cerebrospinal fluid cortisol and ACTH using improved
Baram, TZ +4 more
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Developmental Outcome of West Syndrome
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2007 Medical records of 32 patients with cryptogenic West syndrome were reviewed for factors correlating with developmental outcome in a study at Saitama Children’s Medical Center, and the Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
J Gordon Millichap
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Infantile Spasms: An Update on Pre-Clinical Models and EEG Mechanisms
Children, 2020 Infantile spasms (IS) is an epileptic encephalopathy with unique clinical and electrographic features, which affects children in the middle of the first year of life. The pathophysiology of IS remains incompletely understood, despite the heterogeneity of
Remi Janicot +2 more
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2021 Background: Autoimmune polyendocrinopathy-candidiasis-ectodermal dystrophy is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by a mutation in the autoimmune regulator gene.
Go Kawano +9 more
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Network dynamics in the healthy and epileptic developing brain [PDF]
, 2017 Electroencephalography (EEG) allows recording of cortical activity at high temporal resolution. EEG recordings can be summarised along different dimensions using network-level quantitative measures, e.g.
Baier, G +3 more
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