ENCORAT TREATMENT OF INFANTILE SPASMS AND LENNOX-GASTAUT SYNDROME

Authors
BADALYAN LO TEMIN PA MEDVEDEV MI MUKHIN KY ISKANDER MB KHARLAMOV DA VESELOV NK
Citation
Lo. Badalyan et al., ENCORAT TREATMENT OF INFANTILE SPASMS AND LENNOX-GASTAUT SYNDROME, Zurnal nevropatologii i psihiatrii im. S.S. Korsakova, 94(6), 1994, pp. 28-33
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Pathology,Neurosciences
Journal title
Zurnal nevropatologii i psihiatrii im. S.S. Korsakova → ACNP
ISSN journal
00444588
Volume
94
Issue
6
Year of publication
1994
Pages
28 - 33
Database
ISI
SICI code
0044-4588(1994)94:6<28:ETOISA>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
The drug encorat, an analogue of valproic acid (Sun, India) was given to 16' children aged from 4 month to 5 years suffering from resistant forms of early infantile epilepsy. Twelve of them had infantile spasms , four Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. The treatment produced good results in 75% of the patients. Encorat mono- or polychemotherapy is able to dis continue or decrease the frequency of the epileptic fits, improve the patients' condition in resistant early childhood epilepsy.