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Research & Reviews 59 results
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2023.02.035
The Journal of Pediatrics; Rao CK, Nordli DR et. al.
Mar 18th, 2023 - To assess whether access to smartphone video capture of infantile spasms at initial presentation is associated with improved time to diagnosis and treatment. We conducted a collaborative retrospective cohort study of 80 consecutive infants with co...
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clineuro.2022.107550
Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery; Dedeoğlu Ö, Çetinkaya M et. al.
Dec 12th, 2022 - Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) patients may have different specific neuropsychological deficits related to the location of the tubers. Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are common in TSC patients but the relationship between these diagnoses has no...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9643068
Neuropediatrics Ramantani G, Bölsterli BK et. al.
Jul 27th, 2022 - The manuscript serves as an update on the current management practices for infantile spasm syndrome (ISS). It includes a detailed summary of the level of current evidence of different treatment options for ISS and gives recommendations for the tre...
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1179970-overview
Jul 26th, 2022 - Background The term epileptic encephalopathy describes a heterogeneous group of epilepsy syndromes associated with severe cognitive and behavioral disturbances. These disorders vary in their age of onset, developmental outcome, etiologies, neurops...
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1179970-print
Jul 26th, 2022 - Background The term epileptic encephalopathy describes a heterogeneous group of epilepsy syndromes associated with severe cognitive and behavioral disturbances. These disorders vary in their age of onset, developmental outcome, etiologies, neurops...
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Clinicaltrials.gov 3 results
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05281965
Mar 16th, 2022 - Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), with its core symptoms of communication and repetitive behaviors, is a serious neurodevelopmental disorder common in childhood and affects about 1% of children. So far, autism remains a clinical dilemma with no eff...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05126914
Nov 19th, 2021 - Rare epilepsies as a whole account for 20-30% of epilepsies, but knowledge about prognostic factors is currently limited. This means that it is difficult to provide adequate information to families at diagnosis and during follow-up. Prognostic fac...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04302116
Aug 25th, 2021 - Infantile spasms are recognized as epileptic encephalopathy which include the hypsarrhythmia or variants electroencephalographic (EEG) features and psychomotor regression. Various underlying conditions are associated with the infantile spasm inclu...
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https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/971173
Apr 27th, 2022 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Andrew N. Wilner, MD: Welcome to Medscape. I'm Dr Andrew Wilner, reporting from the American Epilepsy Society meeting. Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr Chethan Rao, a child and adolescent ...
https://www.mdedge.com/neurology/article/214984/epilepsy-seizures/eeg-surveillance-preseizure-treatment-prevents-tsc
M. Alexander Otto
Jan 3rd, 2020 - BALTIMORE – Monitoring children who have tuberous sclerosis with EEG and treating them with vigabatrin (Sabril) at the first sign of preseizure abnormalities, rather than the usual practice of no surveillance and waiting until they have seizures,.
https://www.mdedge.com/neurology/article/214010/epilepsy-seizures/high-infantile-spasm-risk-should-contraindicate-sodium
M. Alexander Otto
Dec 10th, 2019 - BALTIMORE – Sodium channel blocker antiepileptic drugs increase the risk of infantile spasms sevenfold in children with Down syndrome, tuberous sclerosis complex, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, and other nonsyndromic epilepsy conditions with inf.
https://www.mdedge.com/neurology/epilepsyresourcecenter/article/155487/impact-hypsarrhythmia-infantile-spasm-therapy
Demarest ST, Shellhaas RA et. al.
Jan 4th, 2018 - Infants experiencing spasms will likely respond to standard first-line treatment, whether or not they also have hypsarrhythmia, according to a multicenter study of the National Infantile Spasms Consortium. The investigation included infants betwee.
https://www.mdedge.com/pediatrics/article/153694/pediatrics/acth-and-other-standard-treatments-prove-best-infantile-spasms
Eli Zimmerman
Dec 7th, 2017 - WASHINGTON – Standard infantile spasm therapies such as adrenocorticotropic hormone appear to be significantly more effective than nonstandard therapies, according to a prospective study presented at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Soc.