[The enkorat treatment of infantile spasms and the Lennox-Gastaut syndrome]

Autor: L O, Badalian, P A, Temin, M I, Medvedev, K Iu, Mukhin, M B, Iskander, D A, Kharlamov, N K, Veselov
Rok vydání: 1994
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Zdroj: Zhurnal nevrologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova. 94(6)
ISSN: 1997-7298
Popis: 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 discontinue or decrease the frequency of the epileptic fits, improve the patients' condition in resistant early childhood epilepsy.
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