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West syndrome

Background

West syndrome: Infantile spasms

West syndrome is the term used to describe a type of epilepsy which most typically starts in the first year of life, between four and eight months of age. It may, however, start younger than this.

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Medical text written November 2002 by Dr J Livingston, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK. Last updated February 2010 by Professor Brian Neville, Emeritus Professor of Paediatric Neurology, UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK.

 

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