Latest progress on clinical treatment of Dravet syndrome
10.3760/cma.j.issn.2095-428X.2018.24.020
- VernacularTitle:Dravet综合征临床治疗新进展
- Author:
Jiawen LIU
1
,
2
;
Dezhi CAO
Author Information
1. 518038 汕头大学医学院附属深圳市儿童医院神经内科
2. 515041 汕头大学医学院
- Keywords:
Dravet syndrome;
Pharmacological treatment;
Ketogenic diet;
Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy;
Status epilepticus
- From:
Chinese Journal of Applied Clinical Pediatrics
2018;33(24):1913-1917
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Dravet syndrome (DS) is an epileptic (developmental) encephalopathy which onsets in infancy,most DS children are drug resistant.However,the emergence of new antiepileptic drugs is providing more options to treat DS.In the recent years,the efficacy of nonpharmacologic therapies (such as neurostimulation and ketogenic diet) had been also confirmed in DS.Now,the latest progress on clinical treatment of DS was elaborated.Besides that,the therapies on neuropsychological damages and how to prevent and deal with the status epilepticus and sudden unexpected death in children with DS were briefly introduced.
