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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.

 

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