Epilepsy in children: an epidemiological study at Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital Kathmandu.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
To analyze the relative frequencies of various epileptic seizures and to study the age at onset of different seizure types in Nepalese children.DESIGN:
Prospective study.SETTING:
Hospital outpatient based in Kathmandu, Nepal, between November 2001 to October 2002.PARTICIPANTS:
50 children diagnosed as epilepsy excluding neonatal and febrile seizures. Main outcomemeasure:
Diagnosis and classification of cases according to the International Classification of Epilepsy of the International League Against Epilepsy [ILAE] and number of patients in each category with various ages at first seizure.RESULT:
Generalized seizures (78%) were 3.54 times commoner than partial seizures (22%). Most frequent seizure types were generalized tonic clonic (36%), tonic (16%), complex partial (14%), atonic (12%) and absence (10%). Generalized clonic, simple partial and partial with secondary generalization, each had less than 5% frequencies. In 40% cases the first seizure occurred when aged between 2-5 years. In partial seizures the peak age at onset was observed below 6 years while primary generalized seizure was more frequently seen in age group 2-10 years.CONCLUSION:
More paediatric patients with primary generalized seizures (78%) were observed than with partial seizures (22%). In this age group, the most frequent seizure type was generalized tonic clonic (36%) with the peak frequency of age at onset of seizures in 2-5 years.
النص الكامل:
1
الفهرس:
IMSEAR
الموضوع الرئيسي:
Female
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Humans
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Male
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Child
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Child, Preschool
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Prospective Studies
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Adolescent
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Epilepsies, Partial
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Epilepsy, Generalized
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Age of Onset
نوع الدراسة:
Observational_studies
البلد/الأقليم حسب الموضوع:
Asia
اللغة:
En
السنة:
2003
نوع:
Article