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