Status:
COMPLETED
Metabolic Abnormalities in Children With Epilepsy
Lead Sponsor:
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Conditions:
Generalized Epilepsy
Infantile Spasms
Eligibility:
All Genders
Brief Summary
This study is designed to use positron emission tomography to measure brain energy use. Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a technique used to investigate the functional activity of the brain. The ...
Detailed Description
We propose to study children with recent onset partial epilepsy, cryptogenic infantile spasms, and idiopathic Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome with serial FDG-PET to elucidate the natural history and evolution...
Eligibility Criteria
INCLUSION CRITERIA:
Patients with partial seizures, infantile spasms and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome will be selected.
EXCLUSION CRITERIA:
Evidence of a structural lesion as cause for epilepsy.
Degenerative or metabolic disease.
Inability to comply with the protocol.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
April 1 1992
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
End Date :
June 1 2004
Estimated Enrollment :
80 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00001325
Start Date
April 1 1992
End Date
June 1 2004
Last Update
March 4 2008
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National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892