Open AccessCLINICAL PROFILE OF CHILDREN PRESENTING WITH SEIZURE
Author(s) -
Diwakar Aiyaloo,
Banumathi C. M
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of medical and biomedical studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2589-8698
pISSN - 2589-868X
DOI - 10.32553/ijmbs.v4i2.938
Subject(s) - neurocysticercosis , status epilepticus , medicine , epilepsy , pediatrics , seizure types , epileptic seizure , seizure disorders , psychiatry
Seizure is a sudden, uncontrolled electrical disturbance in the brain which causes changes in behavior, movements or feelings, and in the levels of consciousness. Suffering from more seizures or tendency to have recurrent seizures that may lead to epilepsy. This study is to describe the clinical profile of children presenting with seizure including common causes of seizure and classify the seizure types.
Methods: Hospital-based, analytic and descriptive study. This study includes all children in the age group 6 months to 12 years who presented in the department of paediatrics with seizure. Demographic analysis and analysis of different seizure types, analysis of patient based on the cause of seizure as well as outcome of patient presented with seizure in relation to demographic, fever diagnosis and status epilepticus.
Results: The total numbers of patients with seizure under study are 100 in which 61 were males and 39 were females. The most common clinical seizure type was generalized tonic- clonic (56.00%).
Conclusions: Seizures are one of the common causes of hospitalization. It can be inferred from this study that CNS infections are the most common cause of acute symptomatic seizure. The improvement in health care facilities like sanitation and immunization is warranted to prevent it.
Keywords: Generalized tonic-clonic seizures, Neurocysticercosis, Encephalitis, Tubercular meningitis