ALLMedicine™ Aicardi Syndrome Center

Jul 10th, 2021 - Aicardi syndrome is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder associated with epilepsy in females. Ketogenic diet therapy represents a possible nonpharmacologic treatment in Aicardi syndrome patients. All patients with Aicardi syndrome seen at Johns Hopk...

Dec 6th, 2020 - Aiming to detect associations between neuroradiologic and EEG evaluations and long-term clinical outcome in order to detect possible prognostic factors, a detailed clinical and neuroimaging characterization of 67 cases of Aicardi syndrome (AIC), c...

Aug 28th, 2020 - Many of the ophthalmic pathologies can co-exist and when taken together can at times give a clue to a life-threatening systemic condition. Presented here is a case of Aicardi syndrome in a prematurely born baby with retinopathy of prematurity . Ea...

Aug 17th, 2020 - Aicardi syndrome (AIC) is a rare congenital neurodevelopmental disorder of unknown etiology, that affects almost exclusively females, originally characterized by corpus callosum agenesis, chorioretinal lacunae, and infantile spasms. The current di...

Jul 18th, 2020 - Aicardi syndrome is an X-linked condition that is associated with multiple ophthalmic malformations. Here, we report the first published fluorescein angiography (FA) study of a morning glory optic nerve in a patient with Aicardi syndrome and contr...

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.