Table 3.

Lead time to treatment and treatment response.

Lead time	N (%) responding to first line therapy	Cumulative N (%) responding to second line therapy	N (%) with resistant spasms at 3 months	χ2 test for trend (resistant spasms at 3 months)	N with missing information of treatment response
≤7 days	10/11 (91%)	11/11 (100%)	0/11 (0%)	(χ 2 = 10.0 (1 d.f.), p = 0.0015)	1
8-14 days	9/16 (56%)	15/16 (94%)	1/16 (6%)		0
15 days to 2 months	23/44 (52%)	30/44 (68%)	14/44 (32%)		2
> 2 months	19/38 (50%)	23/38 (61%)	15/38 (39%)		0