Overnight Polygraphic Studies of Age-dependent Epilepsy in Infancy Part 2. Influence of Hormone Therapy on Sleep States, Pulse, Respiration and Seizure Activities

Abstract

ACTH or hydrocortisone has been used in the treatment of the age-dependent epilepsy composed of infantile spasms and early-infantile epileptic encephalopathy with suppression-burst (E. I. E. E. ). In this study, the influence of ACTH or hydrocortisone therapy on sleep states, pulse, respiration and seizure activities of this epilepsy was examined electrophysiologically by means of overnight sleep polygraphy.