Infantile Spasms in Down Syndrome

Abstract

The clinical characteristics, EEG abnormalities, response to therapy, and outcome of 14 patients with infantile spasms and Down syndrome were studied at the Hopital Saint Vincent de Paul, Paris (9 cases); Universita Degli Studi de Pisa, Italy (2 cases); and Hopital de La Timone, Marseille, France (3 cases).

Keywords

• infantile spasms in down syndrome
• idiopathic west syndrome
• atypical absence