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Infantile spasmophilia is a symptom complex occurring in infants 6 to 18 months of age, characterized by nervous system hyperexcitability presenting in latent or active forms.
Describes the general characteristics and clinical signs of infantile spasmophilia in infants aged 6 to 18 months.
Reinforces historical features of infantile spasmophilia; leaves open relevance to current practice and research.
It is essential to keep in mind that this discussion will concern itself not with spasmophilia in general but solely with infantile spasmophilia; in other words, with the spasmophilia as it is encountered in infants usually from 6 to 18 months of age. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SPASMOPHILIA Infantile spasmophilia is a symptom complex occurring principally in spring and fall peaks and characterized by a hyperexcitability of the nervous system. It appears either in a latent form, whose principal signs are the Erb and the Chvostek phenomena, or in an active form in which general or local clonic or tonic spasms develop, added to one or both of the latent symptoms mentioned. The Trousseau phenomenon, while sometimes demonstrable during the latent period of spasmophilia, usually is found in infants presenting symptoms of the active stage as well. The active stage frequently is ushered in by other factors than those responsible for
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H. J. Gerstenberger (1930) conducted a review in Infantile spasmophilia. Infantile spasmophilia is a symptom complex occurring in infants 6 to 18 months of age, characterized by nervous system hyperexcitability presenting in latent or active forms.
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