Summary
Definition
History and exam
Key diagnostic factors
- spasms
- head nodding
- neurodevelopmental delay or regression
Other diagnostic factors
- onset age 3-12 months
- perinatal complication
- abnormal eye movements
- microcephaly
- ash-leaf macules
- motor system abnormalities
Risk factors
- brain malformation
- neurocutaneous abnormalities
- prenatal or perinatal vascular event
- intrauterine or perinatal infections
- inherited metabolic disorder
- genetic disorders
- family history
- neonatal sinovenous thrombosis
- postnatal brain injury
- brain tumors
Diagnostic tests
1st tests to order
- sleep electroencephalogram (EEG)
- complete blood count
- blood chemistries
- plasma glucose
- serum calcium
- serum magnesium
- liver function tests
- ammonia
- blood gas
- plasma lactate/pyruvate
- plasma amino acids
- urine organic acids
- acylcarnitines (blood spot)
- biotinidase
- urine alpha-amino adipic semialdehyde dehydrogenase (AASA)
- urine and plasma creatine and guanidinoacetate
- next-generation sequencing: gene panel/whole-exome sequencing/whole-genome sequencing
- microarray comparative genome hybridization (CGH)
- brain MRI
Tests to consider
- cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) exam
- thyroid function tests (free thyroxine [FT4], thyroid-stimulating hormone [TSH])
- plasma transferrin glycoforms
- very long-chain fatty acids
- serum copper, ceruloplasmin
- urine sulfocysteine
- CT brain
- cytomegalovirus (CMV) culture, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), or serology
- toxoplasmosis serology
- echocardiogram
- renal ultrasound
- ophthalmology exam
მკურნალობის ალგორითმი
all patients
კონტრიბუტორები
ავტორები
Robert Robinson, MA, MBBS, FRCP, PhD
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Great Ormond Street Hospital
London
UK
გაფრთხილება:
RR declares that he has no competing interests.
Sarah Buts, MD
Clinical Fellow in Paediatric Neurology
Great Ormond Street Hospital
London
UK
გაფრთხილება:
SB declares that she has no competing interests.
მადლიერება
Dr Robert Robinson and Dr Sarah Buts would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Katharina Vezyroglou, Dr Marjorie Illingworth, Dr Pradnya Gadgil, Dr Teesta Soman, and Dr Shelly Weiss, previous contributors to this topic.
გაფრთხილება:
KV, MI, PG, TS, and SW declare that they have no competing interests.
რეცენზენტები
Gregory L. Holmes, MD
Section Chief of Neurology
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon
NH
გაფრთხილება:
GLH declares that he has no competing interests.
Maria Roberta Cilio, MD, PhD
Attending Pediatric Neurologist
Division of Neurology
Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital
Rome
Italy
გაფრთხილება:
MRC declares that she has no competing interests.
Lionel Carmant, MD
Professor of Neurology
Department of Pediatrics
University of Montreal
Director of Epilepsy Clinic and Research Group
Saint Justine Hospital
Montreal
QC
Canada
გაფრთხილება:
LC declares that he has no competing interests.
Peer reviewer acknowledgements
BMJ Best Practice topics are updated on a rolling basis in line with developments in evidence and guidance. The peer reviewers listed here have reviewed the content at least once during the history of the topic.
Disclosures
Peer reviewer affiliations and disclosures pertain to the time of the review.
წყაროები
ძირითადი სტატიები
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