Biomaterial Database

[Prognoses in children with infantile spasms]. 1984

K Wulff

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007223	Infant	A child between 1 and 23 months of age.	Infants
D008297	Male		Males
D011379	Prognosis	A prediction of the probable outcome of a disease based on a individual's condition and the usual course of the disease as seen in similar situations.	Prognostic Factor,Prognostic Factors,Factor, Prognostic,Factors, Prognostic,Prognoses
D002648	Child	A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL.	Children
D002675	Child, Preschool	A child between the ages of 2 and 5.	Children, Preschool,Preschool Child,Preschool Children
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000324	Adrenocorticotropic Hormone	An anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the ADRENAL CORTEX and its production of CORTICOSTEROIDS. ACTH is a 39-amino acid polypeptide of which the N-terminal 24-amino acid segment is identical in all species and contains the adrenocorticotrophic activity. Upon further tissue-specific processing, ACTH can yield ALPHA-MSH and corticotrophin-like intermediate lobe peptide (CLIP).	ACTH,Adrenocorticotropin,Corticotropin,1-39 ACTH,ACTH (1-39),Adrenocorticotrophic Hormone,Corticotrophin,Corticotrophin (1-39),Corticotropin (1-39),Hormone, Adrenocorticotrophic,Hormone, Adrenocorticotropic
D013036	Spasms, Infantile	An epileptic syndrome characterized by the triad of infantile spasms, hypsarrhythmia, and arrest of psychomotor development at seizure onset. The majority present between 3-12 months of age, with spasms consisting of combinations of brief flexor or extensor movements of the head, trunk, and limbs. The condition is divided into two forms: cryptogenic (idiopathic) and symptomatic (secondary to a known disease process such as intrauterine infections; nervous system abnormalities; BRAIN DISEASES, METABOLIC, INBORN; prematurity; perinatal asphyxia; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; etc.). (From Menkes, Textbook of Child Neurology, 5th ed, pp744-8)	Cryptogenic Infantile Spasms,Hypsarrhythmia,Infantile Spasms,Jackknife Seizures,Nodding Spasm,Salaam Seizures,Spasmus Nutans,Symptomatic Infantile Spasms,West Syndrome,Cryptogenic West Syndrome,Lightning Attacks,Salaam Attacks,Symptomatic West Syndrome,Attack, Lightning,Attacks, Lightning,Attacks, Salaam,Cryptogenic Infantile Spasm,Hypsarrhythmias,Infantile Spasm,Infantile Spasm, Cryptogenic,Infantile Spasm, Symptomatic,Infantile Spasms, Cryptogenic,Infantile Spasms, Symptomatic,Jackknife Seizure,Lightning Attack,Nodding Spasms,Seizure, Jackknife,Seizures, Jackknife,Seizures, Salaam,Spasm, Cryptogenic Infantile,Spasm, Nodding,Spasm, Symptomatic Infantile,Spasms, Cryptogenic Infantile,Spasms, Nodding,Spasms, Symptomatic Infantile,Symptomatic Infantile Spasm,Syndrome, Cryptogenic West,Syndrome, Symptomatic West,Syndrome, West,West Syndrome, Cryptogenic,West Syndrome, Symptomatic