A previously well young Filipino boy presented with prolonged recurrent left focal to bilateral seizure. He was born of a non-consanguineous marriage, home-delivered vaginally, full term no perinatal complications. had normal growth and developmental milestones until at the age 7 months when he developed febrile status epilepticus. Since then, residual hemiplegia, dysarthria, cognitive delay se...

background and objectives:    febrile convulsion is one of the most common types of seizure in childhood. its pathogenesis is unknown, so studying its cause is valuable. the purpose of this study was to determine the serum level of zinc and magnesium in children withfebrileconvulsion (f.c) (3 months to 6 years age). patients and methods: in this analytical case-control study, serum level of zin...

Abstract Background Febrile seizure (FS) is the most common childhood seizures which occur in 2-5% of children. Studies about association between iron deficiency and febrile seizure have shown contradictory results. The purpose of this study was to compare the iron status of children with first febrile seizure and healthy control group. Materials and Methods In an analytic case-control ...

BACKGROUND Episodes of childhood convulsive status epilepticus (CSE) commonly start in the community. Treatment of CSE aims to minimise the length of seizures, treat the causes, and reduce adverse outcomes; however, there is a paucity of data on the treatment of childhood CSE. We report the findings from a systematic, population-based study on the treatment of community-onset childhood CSE. M...

Corpus callosotomy has a long history as a palliative treatment for intractable epilepsy. Identification of a single epileptogenic zone is critical to performing successful resective surgery. We describe three patients in which corpus callosotomy allowed recognition of unapparent seizure foci, leading to subsequent successful resection. We retrospectively reviewed our epilepsy surgery database ...

PURPOSE Febrile seizure, the most common type of pediatric convulsive disorder, is a benign seizure syndrome distinct from epilepsy. However, as epilepsy is also common during childhood, we aimed to identify the prognostic factors that can predict epilepsy in children with febrile seizures. METHODS The study comprised 249 children at the Korea University Ansan Hospital who presented with febr...

Corresponding Author: Heydarian F. MD Pediatric ward,Ghaem hospital Mashhad Cell Phone: +98 915 5155126 Tel: +98 511 8012469 Email:[email protected] Abstract Objective Simple febrile seizures are the most common form of childhood seizures, often recurring within the first twenty-four hours. This study was conducted to determine the probable role of low serum sodium levels in predicting seiz...

PURPOSE Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is an epileptogenic disorder that arises in childhood and is typically characterized by multiple seizure types, slow spike-and-wave complexes on EEG and cognitive impairment. If medical treatment fails, patients can proceed to one of two palliative surgeries, vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) or corpus callosotomy (CC). Their relative seizure control rates in L...

BACKGROUND Idiopathic epilepsies and epileptic syndromes predominate childhood and adolescence epilepsy. The aim of the present study was to investigate the clinical course and outcome of idiopathic childhood epilepsy and identify variables determining both early and long-term prognosis. METHODS We followed 303 children with newly diagnosed idiopathic epilepsy aged 1-14 years old, both prospe...

Background and Objectives:    Febrile convulsion is one of the most common types of seizure in childhood. Its pathogenesis is unknown, so studying its cause is valuable. The purpose of this study was to determine the serum level of zinc and magnesium in children withfebrileconvulsion (F.C) (3 months to 6 years age). Patients and Methods: In this analytical case-control study, serum le...