Your browser doesn't support javascript.
loading
Epidemiology of epilepsy in New Valley Governorate, Al Kharga District, Egypt.
El-Tallawy, Hamdy N; Farghaly, Wafaa M A; Shehata, Ghaydaa A; Abdel-Hakeem, Nabil M; Rageh, Tarek A; Abo-Elftoh, Noha A; Hegazy, Ahmed; Badry, Reda.
Afiliação
  • El-Tallawy HN; Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Egypt.
Epilepsy Res ; 104(1-2): 167-74, 2013 Mar.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22981337
UNLABELLED: Epilepsy is one of the serious neurological disorders which results in profound morbidity and mortality. Although epilepsy has no geographical boundaries, understanding cultural, social, and economic backgrounds is a very important step for interpretation of its epidemiological characteristics. This work aims to study the epidemiological profile of epilepsy in New Valley Governorate and to estimate its magnitude of treatment gap. It was conducted in a door to door survey, including all inhabitants (62,583 subjects), by 3 neurologists to detect any suspected case of focal or generalized epilepsy. All suspected cases were subjected to detailed history, clinical examination, EEG, neuroimaging studies, and estimation of serum drug level if needed. The study revealed that life time prevalence of epilepsy in Al Kharga district is 6.76/1000, with highest peak during early child hood, while that of active epilepsy is 4.99/1000 population. The annual incidence rate is 43.14/100,000, and age specific incidence rate has a U-shaped pattern with two peaks of incidence at early infancy and elderly. Localization-related epilepsy is the most frequently encountered type (53.7%). However the treatment gap of epilepsy in New Valley is similar to that in developing countries (61.5%). CONCLUSION: Prevalence and Incidence Rate of epilepsy in New Valley are similar to that in industrialized countries.
Assuntos

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Inquéritos e Questionários / Epilepsia Tipo de estudo: Risk_factors_studies / Screening_studies Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Child / Child, preschool / Female / Humans / Infant / Male / Middle aged / Newborn País/Região como assunto: Africa Idioma: En Revista: Epilepsy Res Assunto da revista: CEREBRO / NEUROLOGIA Ano de publicação: 2013 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Egito País de publicação: Holanda

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Inquéritos e Questionários / Epilepsia Tipo de estudo: Risk_factors_studies / Screening_studies Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Child / Child, preschool / Female / Humans / Infant / Male / Middle aged / Newborn País/Região como assunto: Africa Idioma: En Revista: Epilepsy Res Assunto da revista: CEREBRO / NEUROLOGIA Ano de publicação: 2013 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Egito País de publicação: Holanda