Thirty-one children divided into 3 groups were studied. Group I included 13 neurologically free children, aged 3-9 years and not receiving any medications. Group II consisted of 7 recently diagnosed non medicated epileptic children, aged 3.5-8 years. Eleven medicated epileptic children; aged 4-9 years represented group III. All children were examined thoroughly. EEG and brain CT scan were done ...

although treated properly for epilepsy, a number of epileptic children have intractable seizures and about 5-10 per cent of them do not respond to anti -epileptic drugs. in the years 1986-1996 about 10,000 epileptic patients were treated in the children's medical center in tehran. a retrospective study of their medical records revealed that 41 of them had intractable seizures. i of these 4...

  Background Seizures may occur in as many as 1% of children. The most urgent type of seizures is generalized tonic-clonic seizures (GTCS). N-terminal prohormone of brain natriuretic peptide (NT‐proBNP) has been considered as a promising biomarker in numerous acute illnesses. We aimed to evaluate usefulness of NT‐proBNP for diagnosis of g...

To evaluate renal side-effects of anti-epileptic medication by valproate (VPA) and carbamazepine (CBZ), we performed a prospective study to assess renal tubular function by measuring N-acetyl-β glucosaminidase (NAG)/Cr activity index in epileptic children. The study was conducted on 112 children who were diagnosed with epilepsy (28 patients were observed before treatment with anti-epileptics, 2...

The management of epileptic children has greatly improved during the last 10 years with new methods of investigation, new anticonvulsant drugs, and sometimes neurosurgical procedures, but conduct disorders encountered in epileptic children remain a most intractable problem. In spite of popular beliefs only a small proportion of epileptic children have severe disorders of this type. Henderson (1...

AIMS To investigate the diagnoses made for children referred to a "fits, faints, and funny turns" clinic. METHODS Prospective study of 380 children referred to a dedicated secondary care clinic over an eight year period. RESULTS Twenty three per cent of children were given a final diagnosis of one of the childhood epilepsies, with 48% of these having a specific epilepsy syndrome. Syncope wa...

epilepsy is an important disease with a cumulative incidence of 3% all over the life and more than half of them are started from childhood. in this study we surveyed magnetic resonance imaging (mri) findings in epileptic children and its relation with clinical and demographic findings in order to find better diagnostic and treatment modalities for these children in the future. in this cross sec...