When a spasm occurs, the childs body bends forward or backward suddenly. Smanejo del dolor en odontopediatria free download pdf ebook. Summary the case is described of a male infant with infantile spasms starting at the age of 3 months, who developed severe mental retardation and died at the age of 6 months. Resumo os espasmos infantis sao crises tipicas da primeira infancia e constituem patologia grave, com prognostico sombrio. O eeg ictal mostra descargas generalizadas caracterizadas por espiculaonda ou polipontasonda a 3. Pueden ser en flexion o extension, simetricos o asimetricos, y mixtos. Sir, i beg to call the attention of the medical profession to a very rare and singular species of convulsions peculiar to young children. The present article discusses three cases of patients with down syndrome who had infantile spams with psychomotor retardation but a nonhypsarrhythmic eeg. Infantile spasms are a rare form of epilepsy where seizures occur in children. Artigo epilepsias na infancia revista neurociencias. We analyzed 214 children born between 1960 and 1976 who had been followed for 2035. To our knowledge, ours is the first study to evaluate the outcome of infantile spasms is in adult patients.
The goal was to report a case of west syndrome in an ecuadorian. Impact of west syndrome in patients from manuel ascencio villarroels. Infantile spasms and the charge association infantile spasms and the charge association curatolo, paolo. Epilepsias y sindromes epilepticos del lactante aeped. Evidencias en pediatria en ninos con espasmos infantiles. It generally begins during the first year of life, being the age range of onset between 3 and 12 months.
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