West syndrome: A study of 26 patients receiving short-term therapy.

Epilepsy & Behavior : E&B
Sebastian FortiniRoberto Caraballo

Abstract

We describe the electroclinical characteristics of a series of 26 patients with idiopathic West syndrome (WS), who had an excellent response to treatment with vigabatrin (VGB) and corticosteroids alone or in combination. Evaluating the records of 178 patients with WS studied at Garrahan Hospital, Niño Jesús Hospital, and Clínica San Lucas between January 2005 and June 2017, we selected 26 patients that met the inclusion criteria of idiopathic WS. The inclusion criteria for idiopathic WS were (1) no personal history of disease, (2) normal neurological examination and neurodevelopment, (3) symmetric spasms in clusters not preceded by any other type of seizure, (d) symmetric hypsarrhythmia, (e) normal electroencephalogram (EEG) background, e.g., normal sleep EEG pattern, (f) normal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) recording, (g) normal neurometabolic and genetic studies, and (h) at least 2 years of follow-up. Fifteen boys and 11 girls met the inclusion criteria of idiopathic WS. The current age of the children ranges between 2 years 10 months and 12 years 10 months. Age at first epileptic spasms (ES) ranged from 4 to 11 months, with a mean age of 7 and a median of 7.5 months, respectively; ES were in clusters, bilateral and symmet...Continue Reading

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