introduction: febrile seizure is the most common problem in pediatric neurology that occur s in 3– 4% of children. the purpose of this study was to evaluate demographic and clinical characteristics of first febrile seizures in children admitted to the hospital. methods: in a descriptive retrospective study, medical records of children with first febrile seizure, admitted between march 2004and a...

BACKGROUND Temporal lobectomy can lead to favorable seizure outcomes in medically-refractory temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Although most studies focus on seizure freedom after temporal lobectomy, less is known about seizure semiology in patients who "fail" surgery. Morbidity differs between seizure types that impair or spare consciousness. Among TLE patients with seizures after surgery, how doe...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa epilepsy is more common in patients with multiple sclerosis (ms) than in the general population, occurring in 2%–3% of patients. convulsions may be either tonic–clonic in nature or partial complex. in these individuals, seizures most likely result from lesions present in the cerebral cortex and subcortical white matter. a jacksonian seizure is a typ...

Controlled clinical trials and routine clinical practice demon-strate that levetiracetam is effective as add-on therapy and appears to allow for withdrawal to monotherapy in patients who respond well in the add-on setting. In pivotal clinical trials of adjunctive therapy with levetiracetam 1000 to 3000 mg/day (pooled data), 40% to 54% of patients experienced a 50% or greater reduction in seizur...

There are a number of obstacles to successful operationalization of clinical practice guidelines, including the difficulty in accurately representing a statement's decidability or an action's executability. Both require reasoning with incomplete and imprecise information, and we present one means of processing such information. We begin with a brief overview of fuzzy set theory, in which elemen...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The prevalence of retinal haemorrhages after convulsions is not well established. As these haemorrhages are considered characteristic of child abuse, we investigated their occurrence after convulsive episodes to see whether the finding of haemorrhage should prompt further investigation. METHODS Prospective study of 153 children (aged 2 months to 2 years), seen in the emerg...

OBJECTIVE To study the role of iron deficiency as a risk factor for simple febrile seizures. DESIGN Case control study. SETTING Pediatric department of a tertiary care teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS 154 cases and 154 controls were included in the study. Consecutive cases and concurrent controls were selected. Cases were children of age group 6 months to 3 years presenting with simple feb...

Up to 5 percent of children in North America and western Europe experience at least one episode of febrile seizure before six years of age. Most of these seizures are self-limited and patients do not require treatment. Continuous therapy after the seizure is not effective in reducing the development of afebrile seizures. Antipyretics are effective in reducing the risk of febrile seizures if giv...

Aim: The aim of the study was to asses the necessity of lumbar puncture in infants under 12 months of age with simple febrile seizure. Material and Methods: The study group covered 33 infants less 12 months of age and diagnosed as simple febrile seizure. Lumbar puncture was performed for all the patients. The age, vaccination status, physical examination, laboratory results of patients are eval...