Etiological study of seizures among paediatric age group (1-18 years) in tertiary care medical college hospital
Journal Title: Pediatric Review: International Journal of Pediatric Research - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
Introduction: Seizure is a common problem evaluated in paediatric emergency departments. A seizure or convulsion is a paroxysmal, time limited change in motor activity and/or behaviour that results from abnormal electrical activity in the brain. In most of the studies, febrile seizures were reported to be the most common type seen in the paediatric population and account for the majority of seizures seen in children younger than 5 years of age. Better understanding of seizures in terms of clinical presentation and etiology is required not only for abortion of acute attack but also for long term control of epilepsy. Materials and methods: The present descriptive study was conducted in the department of paediatrics Sri Siddhartha medical college, Tumkur. Results: A total of 70 cases of seizure were admitted, out of which 40(57.1%) were males and 30(42%) were females. Out of these cases 30 (42.9%), cases presented with seizure which were between the age group of 1-3 years followed by 1 month to 1 year 18(26%) cases. Out of the 70 cases, febrile seizures were the commonest cause of convulsions in our study 48(68.5%). Conclusion: Seizures are the commonest neurological presentation in children worldwide and they bring fear and anxiety to the caretakers. It can be made from our study that most of acute symptomatic seizures are caused by febrile seizures, CNS infections like meningitis and encephalitis, neurocysticercosis which can be prevented with improvement in health care facilities.
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Siddhanth Shetty K, Ananda kumar T. S, Kumar G. V
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- EP ID EP281623
- DOI 10.17511/ijpr.2017.04.03.
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