DISTRIBUTION AND DETERMINANTS OF EPILEPSY I N PEDIATRICS NEUROLOGY CLINIC
Soheir Mohamed Kadry;
Abstract
The present study was conducted on 204 epileptic 'Patients from
Ain Shams Pediatric Neurology Clinic.
Boys were found to be more affected than girls ( 122 males and 81 females ) with a male to female ratio of 1.5 :I; with a mean age of 64 (+_47.9) months. Only 38.4% were the offsprings of consanguinous parents and l9°io had positive family history of seizures.
Primary epilepsy was found to be more common (56.6%) than
symptomatic (43.4%).
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The mean age of onset of symptomatic epilepsy was statistically significantly lower (19.18% Ms) than that for primary epilepsy (
41.7%Ms).
ln the present study 43.5 % had symptomatic epilepsy ; perinatal hypoxic injury is the major underlying etiologic agent , an insult to developing brain in the antenatal, perinatal and early infancy accounted for at least 60% of our cases while head trauma and CNS infection accounted for 18.2% and I 5% respectively.
These data stress the impm1ance of hazards in early period of brain development and the vulnerability of the developing brain to develop seizures.
Ain Shams Pediatric Neurology Clinic.
Boys were found to be more affected than girls ( 122 males and 81 females ) with a male to female ratio of 1.5 :I; with a mean age of 64 (+_47.9) months. Only 38.4% were the offsprings of consanguinous parents and l9°io had positive family history of seizures.
Primary epilepsy was found to be more common (56.6%) than
symptomatic (43.4%).
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The mean age of onset of symptomatic epilepsy was statistically significantly lower (19.18% Ms) than that for primary epilepsy (
41.7%Ms).
ln the present study 43.5 % had symptomatic epilepsy ; perinatal hypoxic injury is the major underlying etiologic agent , an insult to developing brain in the antenatal, perinatal and early infancy accounted for at least 60% of our cases while head trauma and CNS infection accounted for 18.2% and I 5% respectively.
These data stress the impm1ance of hazards in early period of brain development and the vulnerability of the developing brain to develop seizures.
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| Title | DISTRIBUTION AND DETERMINANTS OF EPILEPSY I N PEDIATRICS NEUROLOGY CLINIC | Other Titles | توزيع الصرع والعوامل المسببة له فى عيادة الأطفال للأعصاب | Authors | Soheir Mohamed Kadry | Issue Date | 2001 |
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