Who gets Infantile Spasms?
How serious is Infantile Spasms? Prognosis of Infantile Spasms: Moderate. Seizures may diminism or cease but mental retardation often remains. Prognosis of Infantile Spasms: IS is one of the most devastating seizure disorders affecting infants. Spontaneous cessation of spasms occurs in most patients with increasing age. Overall, however, the intellectual prognosis for patients with IS is generally poor because a large number of these babies have neurological impairment prior to the onset of spasms. Many go on to have different types of seizures in later childhood.
