eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | west syndrome |
| Comorbidity | C0037769|west syndrome |
| Sentences | 5 |
| PubMedID- 23252400 | west syndrome consists of infantile spasms, hypsarrhythmia, and developmental arrest. |
| PubMedID- 26125044 | Vigabatrin (vgb; γ-vinyl-gaba; sabrilr), an antiepileptic agent that irreversibly inhibits gaba-transaminase (gaba-t) (fig.1), is an fda-approved agent employed therapeutically in infantile spasms associated with west syndrome, secondary generalized seizures, and complex partial seizures.1,2 in a study of school age children who had received vgb as infants, riikonen and coworkers3 detected visual field defects (vfd) in one third, and further verified that the rate of vfds increased from 9% to 63% as the duration of vgb treatment had increased during infancy. |
| PubMedID- 23397290 | For example, the resolution of hypsarrhythmia in west syndrome is associated with an improvement in cognitive outcome and drives treatment choice, but the same cannot be applied to frequent inter-ictal discharges in lennox gastaut syndrome. |
| PubMedID- 20882816 | west syndrome consists of the triad of infantile spasms, characteristic electroencephalogram (eeg) pattern of hypsarrythmia and developmental delay. |
| PubMedID- 25363350 | Objective: fast oscillations (fos) were first explored from scalp electroencephalographic (eeg) data from hypsarrhythmia in west syndrome (infantile spasms) to investigate the meaning of fos in this epileptic encephalopathy. |
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