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Short Course and Early Switch of Vigabatrin for Infantile spasms [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals 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
doaj   +1 more source

Epileptic spasms - 175 years on: Trying to teach an old dog new tricks [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Mortality in infantile spasms: A hospital‐based study

open access: yesEpilepsia, 2020
To determine risk factors and causes for mortality during childhood in patients with infantile spasms (IS). We describe the overall goals of care for those who died.
C. Harini   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Infantile Spasm: A Review Article [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +2 more sources

Infantile spasms (West syndrome): update and resources for pediatricians and providers to share with parents [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +2 more sources

Arx expansion mutation perturbs cortical development by augmenting apoptosis without activating innate immunity in a mouse model of X-linked infantile spasms syndrome

open access: yesDisease Models & Mechanisms, 2020
X-linked infantile spasms syndrome (ISSX) is a clinically devastating developmental epileptic encephalopathy with life-long impact. Arx(GCG)10+7, a mouse model of the most common triplet-repeat expansion mutation of ARX, exhibits neonatal spasms ...
Meagan S. Siehr, C. Massey, J. Noebels
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Why West? Comparisons of clinical, genetic and molecular features of infants with and without spasms. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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
doaj   +1 more source

Crisis Standard of Care: Management of Infantile Spasms during COVID‐19

open access: yesAnnals of Neurology, 2020
The Child Neurology Society collaborated with the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium to issue an online statement April 6, 2020 of immediate recommendations to streamline diagnosis, treatment, and follow up of infantile spasms.
Z. Grinspan   +25 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

X-Linked Infantile Spasms

open access: yesPediatric Neurology Briefs, 1997
Two unrelated families with X-linked infantile spasm syndrome were studied genetically by two-point and multipoint linkage analyses at the University Hospital Gasthuisberg, and Center for Human Genetics, University of Leuven, and University of Antwerp ...
J Gordon Millichap
doaj   +1 more source

How should children with West syndrome be efficiently and accurately investigated? Results from the National Infantile Spasms Consortium [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/111205/1/epi12951 ...
Allen   +15 more
core   +1 more source

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