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      Aicardi syndrome: a report of five Indian cases.

      Neurology India
      Adolescent, Agenesis of Corpus Callosum, Anticonvulsants, therapeutic use, Child, Preschool, Corpus Callosum, pathology, Electroencephalography, Humans, Infant, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Retinal Diseases, congenital, etiology, Seizures, drug therapy, Spasm, Treatment Outcome

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          Five Indian cases of Aicardi syndrome, aged 1-13 years and all with the classic triad of infantile spasm, corpus callosal agenesis and chorioretinal lacunae, were presented. The purpose of this report was to demonstrate the clinical, electroencephalographic (EEG) and radiological spectrum and the treatment outcome of this disorder among the Indians. None of the patient had any family history of similar illness. All had profound psychomotor impairment with no meaningful speech development. There were microphthalmia in 2, optic disc coloboma in 1, interhemispheric cyst in 1, periventricular heterotopia in 2 and thoracolumbar kyphoscoliosis in 2 cases. They all had early onset epilepsy and there were multiple types of seizures. Two cases (40%) had the characteristic dissociated burst-suppression pattern in EEG. Two cases whose antiepileptic medications included vigabatrin had complete control of seizure.

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