Epileptic syndromes: differential treatment in infants, children, and adolescents

Acta Neurol Belg. 2011 Sep;111(3):175-82.

Abstract

This paper proposes therapeutic guidelines for the management of some epileptic syndromes in infants, children, and adolescents, based on available medical literature and clinical practice in the French Community of Belgium. The guidelines address both epileptic encephalopathies (West syndrome, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, and Dravet syndrome) and idiopathic epilepsies (typical absence seizures, epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy).

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Age Factors
  • Anticonvulsants / therapeutic use*
  • Child
  • Epilepsy / drug therapy*
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Intellectual Disability / drug therapy
  • Lennox Gastaut Syndrome
  • Myoclonic Epilepsy, Juvenile / drug therapy
  • Spasms, Infantile / drug therapy

Substances

  • Anticonvulsants

Supplementary concepts

  • Epileptic encephalopathy, Lennox-Gastaut type