A patient with infantile spasms and low
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H. Sugie; Y. Sugie; N. Kato; Y. Fukuyama
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Article
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1989
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Springer
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English
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We report a 3-month-old female with infantile spasms that responded transiently to pyridoxine and permanently to oral L-dopa. Initial CSF levels of homovanillic acid were low, suggesting disturbed turnover of dopamine. These findings suggest that disturbed brain monoamine metabolism may be causally