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Treatment of Infantile Spasms: The Ideal and the Mundane
Author(s) -
Baram Tallie Z.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
epilepsia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.687
H-Index - 191
eISSN - 1528-1167
pISSN - 0013-9580
DOI - 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.44086.x
Subject(s) - hypsarrhythmia , west syndrome , vigabatrin , pediatrics , status epilepticus , medicine , psychology , psychiatry , epilepsy , neuroscience , anticonvulsant
Over 150 years after the description of infantile spasms (IS, 1), fifty years after the delineation of hypsarrhythmia (2), and forty years after the coining of the term “west syndrome” (3), there is little progress in understanding and effectively treating this disorder.