Síndrome de West a Causa de Isquemia Cerebral Antes del Nacimiento

Abstract

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.