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Item Síndrome de West a Causa de Isquemia Cerebral Antes del Nacimiento(Universidad Técnica de Ambato-Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud-Carrera Terapia Física, 2016-11-01) Sánchez Carrera, Elizabeth Jazmina; Jerez Camino, Carlos Milton Md.This research documents in detail the analysis of the clinical case with the theme: West syndrome caused by cerebral ischemia before the birth. In a 10 years old male patient. The West syndrome is a pathology that is presents because of an encephalopathy hypoxic-ischemic and is usually found accompanied by brain palsy, has an incidence of around 1 by 4,000 to 6,000 infants living with predominance in the sex male, its main features are: epileptic spasms, delay of the psychomotor development and hipsarritmic electroencephalogram. This is a clinical case with complications before and during birth which will identify risk factors suchas: abdominal, lack of a good trauma monitoring service is health before and during the labor and delivery and late medical diagnosis; THe patient has received physiotherapist treatment starting from the third year of life with little advance, by what is proposes a physiotherapist treatment based in the "guide of treatment integral of the spasticity" of where is chose the Bobath method as one of them main approaches therapeutic in the present work.Item Encefalopatía Epiléptica, Síndrome de West(Universidad Técnica de Ambato-Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud-Carrera Medicina, 2016-05-01) López Poveda, Lucía Maribel; Lana Saavedra, Héctor Enrique Dr. Esp.West syndrome is a pediatric epileptic encephalopathy age-dependent characterized by the classic triad: epileptic spasms, hypsarrhythmic pattern and psychomotor retardation. It starts in the majority during the 1st year of life, with an incidence between 3 and 12 months old. The objective of this research is to describe the clinical presentation and the flaws in the health system that impede the timely treatment of these patients, this case is a male patient infant under 6 months of age, presents sudden movements of upper limbs and chest flexed forward, squinting up, followed by loud crying until sleep of 10 minutes, by several times a day, go to the health center where they are slow to make reference, go to HPDA emergency where it is not treated and finally go to the outpatient clinic where it is valued and your income is decided. He is hospitalized, seeing the seriousness of the symptoms you decide to start treatment with Valproic Acid at a dose of 15 mg / kg / dose. TAC then performed additional tests: frontal cortical atrophy; EEG slowing and disorganization of brain electrical activity (hypsarrhythmia) determining a diagnosis of West syndrome