Early infantile epileptic encephalopathy with unusual favourable outcome.

The authors report the case of an infant suffered from early infantile epileptic encephalopathy with suppression-burst, or Ohtahara syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy in early childhood. The patient was treated with vigabatrin causing a favourable response. This unusual outcome may be related with the normality of neuroimaging and metabolic studies, as happens with idiopathic West syndrome cases.