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Meanings of west syndrome in English
Portuguese
síndrome de west Spanish
síndrome de west A severe epilepsy syndrome with triad of infantile spasms, an interictal electroencephalogram (EEG) pattern termed hypsarrhythmia, and mental retardation.
Synonyms
Examples for "salaam spasms"
Examples for "salaam spasms"
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X-linked Infantile Spasms Syndrome (ISSX) is a catastrophic epilepsy of early childhood with intractable seizures, intellectual disability, and poor prognosis.
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Reports on the use of topiramate for treatment of infantile spasms are limited.
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Seizure types were variable, including infantile spasms and myoclonic seizures, and often prolonged.
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Twelve patients had symptomatic infantile spasms, and two patients had cryptogenic infantile spasms.
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This study evaluated the efficacy and safety of vigabatrin for Japanese patients with infantile spasms.
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We encountered two WBS patients presenting with infantile spasms, which is extremely rare in WBS.
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On screen, Margrit finished her beer and drank Cole's in epileptic spasms.
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Main seizure types were epileptic spasms in 17 patients and tonic spasms in eight.
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Conclusion: This study demonstrated that serial EEG findings after ACTH therapy are significantly related to relapse of epileptic spasms.
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Background: Corpus callosotomy (CC) has recently been adopted for the treatment of drug-resistant epileptic spasms and tonic spasms.
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The patient was admitted due to infantile epileptic spasms at eight months of age, motor developmental delay, and dysmorphic features.
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Reports on the use of topiramate for treatment of infantile spasms are limited.
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Seizure types were variable, including infantile spasms and myoclonic seizures, and often prolonged.
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Twelve patients had symptomatic infantile spasms, and two patients had cryptogenic infantile spasms.
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This study evaluated the efficacy and safety of vigabatrin for Japanese patients with infantile spasms.
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We encountered two WBS patients presenting with infantile spasms, which is extremely rare in WBS.
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Results: We used iobio to identify the disease-causing variant in a patient with early infantile epileptic encephalopathy with prior nondiagnostic genetic testing.
Usage of west syndrome in English
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We retrospectively studied 18 patients with West syndrome treated with ACTH according to Fukuyama's method.
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We experienced one symptomatic case and three cryptogenic cases of West syndrome that showed spontaneous remission.
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Of these, 3 had West syndrome.
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Generally, West syndrome is an intractable epileptic syndrome in infancy, although spontaneous remission has been reported in some cases.
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Here, we report a patient with West syndrome whose chromosome analysis revealed 14q11.2-21.1 duplication.
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An immunologic response to infection might be one of the factors involved in the remission of West syndrome, but the mechanisms remain unknown.
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Our results suggest that choice of drug in the initial treatment of West syndrome should be determined by clinical features (especially etiology).
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The changes in serum antibody values suggest that the spontaneous remission of West syndrome was related to human herpesvirus 6 and 7 infections.