Volume : VIII, Issue : VIII, August - 2019

CORRELATION BETWEEN TYPE OF SEIZURES AND STRUCTURAL ABNORMALITIES OF BRAIN

Dr Nidhi Gupta, Dr Arvind Kumar Mittal

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INTRODUCTION : In developing countries epilepsy is an important health problem. Epilepsy is a complex neurological condition with many possible co-morbid features. The risk of premature death is two to three times higher in epileptic children. Neuroimaging becomes important and mandatory in the work up of epilepsy and for classification of the seizure focus. The correlation of structure with function is essential in the understanding of the epilepsies and epileptic seizures, which may have a structural basis. AIM/OBJECTIVE:- To study the type of intracranial lesions responsible for the epilepsy. And To study the correlation between type of seizures and pattern of structural abnormalities of ain. MATERIAL & METHOD:- All children between age of 1 month to 18 years with two or more unprovoked seizures attending the paediatrics emergency and OPD of SAMC & PGI in 1½ year duration were enrolled in the study. Detailed history and clinical examination was done for all the patients included in the study. And neuroimaging(CT/MRI) was also done in all patients. RESULT:- In our study out of 144 patients, In cases of perinatal insult, Partial seizures were found in 28 cases out of which 22 were of Partial to Generalized Tonic- Clonic Seizure (PGTC) and 6 were of Complex Partial Seizure (CPS). 12 cases of perinatal insult were unclassified. In infective sequalae,24 were of partial, out of which 12 of PGTC, 8 of Simple Partial Seizure (SPS), 4 of CPS. In congenital/developmental anomaly, 22 were of partial out of which 14 were of PGTC, 6 were of CPS, 2 was of SPS. Two cases of congenital anomaly was of generalized seizures CONCLUSION:- The study shows that partial seizures are more common than generalized seizures irrespective of etiology.

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CORRELATION BETWEEN TYPE OF SEIZURES AND STRUCTURAL ABNORMALITIES OF BRAIN, Dr Nidhi Gupta, Dr Arvind Kumar Mittal GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : Volume-8 | Issue-8 | August-2019


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