Research progress on infantile spasm / 中国小儿急救医学

ABSTRACT

Infant spasm is the highest incidence of infantile epilepsy syndrome, the incidence is 0.16/1 000-0.42/1 000, the proportion of male and female children is 6/4.Infantile spasms starts in early childhood, and is hidden, the symptoms of infantile spasms need to be distinguished from other diseases.In the presence of isolated or series of abnormal movements with or without developmental retardation orregression, timely EEG is necessary.And according to the EEG, doctors could give the corresponding drugs to the children as soon as possible to improve the prognosis.Through the correlative literature in recent 10 years, we summarized the causes, the clinical characteristics and the iconography of isnfantile spasms.