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Preferred term

Spasms, Infantile  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Attack, Lightning
  • Attacks, Lightning
  • Infantile Spasms
  • Lightning Attack
  • Lightning Attacks
  • Syndrome, West
  • West Syndrome

Note

  • epileptic seizures only: do not confuse with SPASM + INFANT for non-epileptic seizures in infants

Scope note

  • An epileptic syndrome characterized by the triad of infantile spasms, hypsarrhythmia, and arrest of psychomotor development at seizure onset. The majority present between 3-12 months of age, with spasms consisting of combinations of brief flexor or extensor movements of the head, trunk, and limbs. The condition is divided into two forms: cryptogenic (idiopathic) and symptomatic (secondary to a known disease process such as intrauterine infections; nervous system abnormalities; BRAIN DISEASES, METABOLIC, INBORN; prematurity; perinatal asphyxia; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; etc.). (From Menkes, Textbook of Child Neurology, 5th ed, pp744-8)

History note

  • 1977(1963)

In other languages

  • infantiilispasmit

    Finnish

  • infantiilispasmi
  • infantiilispasmioireyhtymä
  • infantiilispasmisyndrooma
  • spasmus infantilis
  • syndroma West
  • West
  • Westin oireyhtymä
  • Westin syndrooma
  • Infantila spasmer

    Swedish

  • BNS-kramper
  • Hypsarytmi
  • Salaam-anfall
  • Wests syndrom

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013036

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