Early infantile epileptic encephalopathy

A severe form of age-related epileptic encephalopathies characterized by the onset of tonic spasms within the first 3 months of life that can be generalized or lateralized, independent of the sleep cycle, and that can occur hundreds of times per day, leading to psychomotor impairment and death.

Status epilepticus

Seizures lasting for more than 30 minutes or longer or multiple seizures repeated frequently without regaining consciousness between seizures.

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	A forgotten alternative: Bromides for refractory status epilepticus.
	Horesh N, Rubinstein M, Ben-Zeev B, Paret G. J Pediatr Intensive Care. 2013;2(2):85-88.
	We present the cases of a 1-month-old infant diagnosed as having malignant migrating partial epilepsy of infancy and a 2-month-old infant with Ohtahara syndrome, who both presented with severe refractory status epilepticus and were treated with potassium bromide when all other antiepileptic drugs failed.