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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 +11 more
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Short Course and Early Switch of Vigabatrin for Infantile spasms [PDF]
Annals of Child Neurology, 2020 Purpose Vigabatrin has proven efficacy in the treatment of infantile spasms, but it carries the risk of irreversible visual field constriction. The incidence of vigabatrin-induced visual field constriction seems to depend on the extent of vigabatrin ...
Hye Won Ryu +6 more
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Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022 Recurrent and profound hypoglycemia is a leading cause of neonatal brain injury. Small-for-gestational-age infants are at risk of hypoglycemia due to substrate deficiency and hyperinsulinism. Inappropriate insulin secretion by the β-cells of the pancreas
Suresh Chandran +11 more
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Infantile Spasms in Children With Down Syndrome: Identification and Treatment Response
Global Pediatric Health, 2019 Objectives. To evaluate infantile spasms in children with Down syndrome including assessment of efficacy of treatments, presence of treatment lag, and to identify risk factors that may predict the occurrence of infantile spasms in this population ...
Dee Daniels CPNP, RN, MSN +5 more
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective The aim of this study was to characterize intellectual and motor function, neurological features including epilepsy, treatment response, and adaptive behavior in patients with pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency (PDCD) in Sweden.
Antri Savvidou +6 more
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UK Infantile Spasms Study: Effect of Time to Treatment and Age at Onset on Developmental Outcome
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2011 The effects of lead time to treatment (time from onset of spasms to start of treatment), age at onset of spasms, etiology, and treatment on developmental outcome at 4 years were investigated using multiple linear regression in 77 infants with spasms ...
J Gordon Millichap
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Heterozygous Variants in LRP1 Cause a Neurodevelopmental Disorder With Congenital Heart Defects
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.ABSTRACT LRP1 encodes the low‐density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor‐related protein 1 (LRP1), a transmembrane protein involved in endocytosis and activation of multiple signaling pathways. LRP1 variants have been implicated in the pathogenesis of congenital heart defects (CHD), Alzheimer's disease, and neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD).
Alyssa L. Rippert +31 more
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Why West? Comparisons of clinical, genetic and molecular features of infants with and without spasms. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Infantile spasms are the defining seizures of West syndrome, a severe form of early life epilepsy with poorly-understood pathophysiology. We present a novel comparative analysis of infants with spasms versus other seizure-types and identify clinical ...
Anne T Berg +21 more
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Recurrent Neurodevelopmental Disorder Associated With a Dominant‐Negative TOP2B H63Y Variant
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We describe a 7 year‐old boy with severe neurodevelopmental disorder, medically‐refractory epileptic encephalopathy, hyperkinetic movement disorder, hypotonia, cerebral and cerebellar atrophy and hypomyelination who was found to have a heterozygous de novo TOP2B NM_001330700.2:c.187C>T, p.(His63Tyr) variant.
Zong Yi Ha +6 more
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Epilepsia OpenObjective 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 +7 more
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