West's syndrome: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 22:39, 18 May 2019

Disease classification WHO

G40.4 Epileptic spams

West's syndrome or epileptic spams is a rare condition of adult and children, it is related with Lennox–Gastaut syndrome ACTH was considered effective in treating infantile spams. ^[1]^[2] ^[3]Prolonged prenatal stress or prenatal administration of corticosteroids may significantly alter seizure susceptibility ^[4]

Links

Helena Gaufin et al.2015 Being parents with epilepsy: thoughts on its consequences and difficulties affecting their children Neuropsychiatic Disease and Treatment ;11:1291-8. doi: 10.2147/NDT.S74222. eCollection 2015.

Diagnostic performance of 18F-FDG PET and ictal 99mTc-HMPAO SPET in pediatric temporal lobe epilepsy: quantitative analysis by statistical parametric mapping, statistical probabilistic anatomical map, and subtraction ictal SPET.

Chung S S. 2015. A review of the efficacy and safety of extended-release topiramate in the adjunctive treatment for refractory partial-onset seizure Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders (3):131-6. doi: 10.1177/1756285615578406.

References

References:

Interwiki via Wikidata

[1] Corticosteroids in the management of the paediatric epilepsies

[2] Adrenal cortex hormones in male epileptic patients before and during a 2-year phenytoin treatment

[3] EPILEPSY IN CHILDHOOD:Classification and Treatment

[4] Prenatal corticosteroid impact on hippocampus: Implications for postnatal outcomes

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

Revision as of 22:38, 18 May 2019 (view source) Penarc (talk \| contribs) mNo edit summary ← Older edit		Latest revision as of 22:39, 18 May 2019 (view source) Penarc (talk \| contribs) mNo edit summary
Line 18:		Line 18:

	{{wikidata\|Q1041258}}		{{wikidata\|Q1041258}}
			[[Category:Epilepsy]]

West's syndrome: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 22:39, 18 May 2019

Links

References

Navigation menu

Search