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Short Course and Early Switch of Vigabatrin for Infantile spasms [PDF]
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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Epileptic spasms - 175 years on: Trying to teach an old dog new tricks [PDF]
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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Mortality in infantile spasms: A hospital‐based study
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
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Infantile Spasm: A Review Article [PDF]
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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Infantile spasms (West syndrome): update and resources for pediatricians and providers to share with parents [PDF]
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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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
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Why West? Comparisons of clinical, genetic and molecular features of infants with and without spasms. [PDF]
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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Crisis Standard of Care: Management of Infantile Spasms during COVID‐19
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
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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
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How should children with West syndrome be efficiently and accurately investigated? Results from the National Infantile Spasms Consortium [PDF]
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/111205/1/epi12951 ...
Allen+15 more
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