West's syndrome: Difference between revisions

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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

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.

A review of the efficacy and safety of extended-release topiramate in the adjunctive treatment for refractory partial-onset seizure http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4409552/pdf/10.1177_1756285615578406.pdf

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 Helena Gaufin et al.2015 [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4455853/pdf/ndt-11-1291.pdf 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.
 *[http://www.seizure-journal.com/article/S1059-1311(05)00026-9/pdf 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.]
+A review of the efficacy and safety of extended-release topiramate in the adjunctive treatment for refractory partial-onset seizure http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4409552/pdf/10.1177_1756285615578406.pdf