West syndrome

severe epilepsy syndrome with infantile spasms, hypsarrhythmia and mental retardation
MedicalCondition designated_intractable_rare_disease Q1041258
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West syndrome

Summary

West syndrome is a designated intractable/rare disease[1]. It draws 176 Wikipedia views per month (designated_intractable_rare_disease category, ranking #144 of 201).[2]

Key Facts

  • West syndrome's instance of is recorded as designated intractable/rare disease[3].
  • West syndrome's instance of is recorded as class of disease[4].
  • William James West is named after West syndrome[5].
  • West syndrome is a type of infancy electroclinical syndrome[6].
  • West syndrome is a type of epilepsy syndrome[7].
  • West syndrome is a type of disease[8].
  • West syndrome's official website is recorded as http://www.kindernetzwerk.de[9].
  • West syndrome's prevalence is recorded as {'amount': '+0.003'}[10].
  • West syndrome's external data available at URL is recorded as http://www.nanbyou.or.jp/entry/4414[11].
  • West syndrome's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C84788[12].
  • West syndrome's health specialty is recorded as neurology[13].
  • West syndrome's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_0050562[14].
  • West syndrome's exact match is recorded as http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:0050562[15].
  • West syndrome's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Medicine[16].

Why It Matters

West syndrome draws 176 Wikipedia views per month (designated_intractable_rare_disease category, ranking #144 of 201).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . ddrare.nibiohn.go.jp. Retrieved . ddrare.nibiohn.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Klinická neurologie část speciální. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . ddrare.nibiohn.go.jp. Retrieved . ddrare.nibiohn.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Health specialty neurology
    Prevalence {'amount': '+0.003'}
    Instance of designated intractable/rare disease, class of disease
    Subclass of
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