High-Dose Phenobarbital for Ohtahara Syndrome

Abstract

Oral high-dose phenobarbital therapy was effective in the control of tonic spasms in a 1 month-old-infant with early infantile epileptic encephalopathy with suppression bursts (Ohtahara syndrome) treated at Tokyo Metropolitan Hachioji Children’s Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

Keywords

• ohtahara syndrome
• valproic acid
• serum phenobarbital