Latest progress on clinical treatment of Dravet syndrome

Dravet syndrome (DS) is an epileptic (developmental) encephalopathy which onsets in infancy, most DS children are drug resistant.However, the emergence of new antiepileptic drugs is providing more options to treat DS.In the recent years, the efficacy of nonpharmacologic therapies (such as neurostimulation and ketogenic diet) had been also confirmed in DS.Now, the latest progress on clinical treatment of DS was elaborated.Besides that, the therapies on neuropsychological damages and how to prevent and deal with the status epilepticus and sudden unexpected death in children with DS were briefly introduced. Key words: Dravet syndrome; Pharmacological treatment; Ketogenic diet; Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy; Status epilepticus