METHOD OF TREATMENT OF POSTCONVULSIVE SPASMS Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC A61K31/573 A61P25/08 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to medicine, namely to child neurology, can be used to treat postconvulsive spasms. To do this, methylprednisolone is inserted endovenous by drop infusion at dose of 30 mg/kg/day for three days, then one day at dose of 20 mg/kg, then one day at dose of 10 mg/kg followed by ingestion at dose of 2 mg/kg/day for one week, then at dose of 1.5 mg/kg/day for three months, and then reduce weekly dose by 4 mg every subsequent week until the drug is stopped.

EFFECT: method allows to reduce time of the beginning of clinical and encephalographic remission with reduction in the incidence of complications caused by the use of nonsteroid hormonal drugs, improving prognosis of neuro-cognitive development of patients and prevention of secondary prophylaxis of the disease.

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