Diagnostic and therapeutic experience of child with neonatal epilepsy: from ICU to home (сlinical case)

Abstract

Ohtahara syndrome is the earliest of age-dependent epileptic encephalopathies, characterized by an early onset at the age of 3 months (most often the first 10 days of life), ‘suppression-burst’ pattern on EEG both in wakefulness and in sleep, resistance to standard AED therapy, a high probability of poor prognosis in the form of severe psychomotor retardation and death in infancy.