Late Onset Poststroke Seizures
Journal Title: Journal of Neurological Sciences-Turkish - Year 2005, Vol 22, Issue 4
Abstract
The most common cause of seizures is cerebrovascular disease in elderly population. Late onset seizures are not investigated as well as early onset seizures in patients with stroke. There is no common consensus about clinical, electrophysiological and radiological features of these seizures. In this study, 55 patients with late onset seizure who had stroke history were investigated. The 49 % of patients were women, the mean ages of patients were 63.9±9.2 years. The mean of duration between stroke and the first seizure was 30.4±36.8 months and the mean of following time was 14±13 months. The 89% of patients ischemic stroke and 11% of patients had hemorrhagic stroke. The lesion localizations were cortical in 17 (30.9%) patients, subcortical in 8 (14.5%) and cortico-subcortical in 29 (52.7%). As a result 84 % patients’ lesions were cortical localization. There were partial seizure in 39 (%70.9) patients, generalized tonic-clonic seizure in 16 (29.1%) patients. 43 (78%) patients had no seizure during antiepileptic therapy. 7 (12.7%) patients had seizure after beginning antiepileptic drug due to stopping drug, low blood level of drug and ineffectiveness of drug. 5 (9%) patients had not been given drug because of first seizure and no seizure during follow-up. In conclusion, the late onset poststroke seizures seem frequently in ischemic stroke, the reccurence rate was high and partial type seizures were more common than generalized and cortical localization was seen frequently. On the other hand, this condition has good prognosis.
Authors and Affiliations
Basak GOKSEL, Mehmet KARATAS, Meliha TAN, Tulin YILDIRIM, Osman KIZILKILIC, Sibel BENLI, Deniz YERDELEN
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