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Safety and Efficacy of Vigabatrin for the Treatment of Infantile Spasms
Journal of Central Nervous System Disease, 2011 In 2009, vigabatrin became the first FDA approved medication for the treatment of infantile spasms in the United States. There are few well-designed prospective studies comparing the drug to placebo or other modalities used in the treatment of infantile ...
Michele A. Faulkner, Justin A. Tolman
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Genetic Classification of Infantile Spasms
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2012 Researchers from University of Washington, Seattle, WA, and Washington University, St Louis, MO propose a genetic and biologic classification of infantile spasms. Infantile spasms are of 2 main groups: those with known or unknown predisposing genotypes.
J Gordon Millichap
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Neurobiology of Disease, 2015 Abnormal high frequency oscillations (HFOs) in EEG recordings are thought to be reflections of mechanisms responsible for focal seizure generation in the temporal lobe and neocortex. HFOs have also been recorded in patients and animal models of infantile
James D. Frost, Jr. +5 more
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"Electro-clinical Syndromes" with onset in Paediatric Age. the highlights of the clinical-EEG, genetic and therapeutic advances [PDF]
, 2011 The genetic causes underlying epilepsy remain largely unknown, and the impact of available genetic data on the nosology of epilepsy is still limited.
Alberto Verrotti +7 more
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The early electroclinical manifestations of infantile spasms: A video EEG study
Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2016 Purpose: Infantile spasms are described as flexor extensor and mixed; but more features of their semiology and ictal electroencephalography (EEG) changes are sparse in the literature.
Mary Iype +4 more
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A team science approach to discover novel targets for infantile spasms (IS)
Epilepsia Open, 2021 Infantile spasms (IS) is a devastating epilepsy syndrome that typically begins in the first year of life. Symptoms consist of stereotypical spasms, developmental delay, and electroencephalogram (EEG) that may demonstrate Hypsarhythmia.
The CURE Infantile Spasms Consortium, CURE Staff +2 more
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Protein structure and phenotypic analysis of pathogenic and population missense variants in STXBP1 [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Syntaxin-binding protein 1, encoded by STXBP1, is highly expressed in the brain and involved in fusing synaptic vesicles with the plasma membrane.
Baker, K +17 more
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Limited efficacy of zonisamide in the treatment of refractory infantile spasms
Epilepsia Open, 2020 A series of relatively small studies collectively suggest that zonisamide may be effective in the treatment of infantile spasms. Using a large single‐center cohort of children with infantile spasms, we set out to evaluate the efficacy and safety of ...
Shaun A. Hussain +7 more
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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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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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