Febrile seizures are the most common seizure disorder in childhood, affecting 2% to 5% of children between the ages of 6 and 60 months. Simple febrile seizures are defined as brief ( 15-minute) generalized seizures that occur once during a 24-hour period in a febrile child who does not have an intracranial infection, metabolic disturbance, or history of afebrile seizures. This guideline (a revi...

Objective. Febrile seizures are the most common type of convulsion in children. The identification of influencing factors on incidence of the first febrile seizures is of prime priority. The aim of this study was to identify the risk factors of the first febrile seizures in Iranian children. Methods. In this case-control study 80 children aged 9 month to 5 years with their first febrile seizure...

430 www.thelancet.com Vol 372 August 9, 2008 in the general population, it is diffi cult to exclude chance as an explanation for their fi ndings. In today’s study, Vestergaard and colleagues tested the hypothesis that febrile seizures are associated with an increased risk of death, by examining mortality data from a cohort of more than 1·6 million children, including over 55 000 children with f...

OBJECTIVES To examine the degree of hippocampal atrophy in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and proved hippocampal sclerosis to determine whether or not patients with febrile seizures have more severe hippocampal atrophy. To determine whether or not there is a relation between age of seizure onset, duration of temporal lobe epilepsy, or seizure frequency, and severity of hippocampal atrophy...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the use of whole brain voxel based morphometry (VBM) and stereological analysis to study brain morphology in patients with medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy; and to determine the relation between side, duration, and age of onset of temporal lobe epilepsy, history of childhood febrile convulsions, and grey matter structure. METHODS Three dimensional magneti...

Febrile seizure (FS) is one of the most common seizures seen in infant and pre-school age. There are two types FSs, simple complex. Simple FS commonly benign, but complex have long-term effects. Most children with normal growth development after attack; however, recent evidences suggest that a small group presenting fever may subsequently develop epilepsy or recurrent seizures. Diagnosis mainly...

to ascertain whether lp was justifiable in cases of first simple febrile seizure, the records of128 such patients were critically reviewed in this study. it was evident that in 90% of those who received cerebrospinal fluid examination as a routine work up, lumbar puncture could have been avoided if the definition of simple febrile seizure was adhered to and the history and clinical findings wer...