Badalian L O, Temin P A, Medvedev M I, Mukhin K Iu, Iskander M B, Kharlamov D A, Veselov N K
Zh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova. 1994;94(6):28-33.
The drug encorat, an analogue of valproic acid (Sun, India) was given to 16 children aged from 4 month to 5 years suffering from resistant forms of early infantile epilepsy. Twelve of them had infantile spasms, four Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. The treatment produced good results in 75% of the patients. Encorat mono- or polychemotherapy is able to discontinue or decrease the frequency of the epileptic fits, improve the patients' condition in resistant early childhood epilepsy.
