20 Clinical Characteristics of Hospitalized Children with Febrile Seizure. Child Health Institute

Ballón, A E; Chalco, Juan Pablo

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“…This is similar to 37% reported by Al-Eissa et al [21]. A lower incidence of positive family history ranging from 10.2-25% has been reported in other studies [22,24,28,29]. Furthermore, positive family history of epilepsy in 17% of patients in the present study was higher than 3 −14.6% reported from other places [24,29].…”

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“…A lower incidence of positive family history ranging from 10.2-25% has been reported in other studies [22,24,28,29]. Furthermore, positive family history of epilepsy in 17% of patients in the present study was higher than 3 −14.6% reported from other places [24,29]. It has been reported that family history of FS is associated with increased risk of recurrence and with earlier occurrence of first FS [1,7,20].…”

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“…Males accounted for 57% of patients with male to female ratio of 1.3:1 in the present study. The male sex predominance has been well documented in almost all studies and it is suggested as a risk factor for recurrence of FS [9,16,[24][25][26][27]. Thirty-five percent of patients in this study had a positive family history of FS.…”

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Epidemiological and clinical features of hospitalized patients with febrile seizures in Ramadi, West of Iraq

Al-Zwaini

2015

J Pediatr Neurol

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Prospective study of 169 children with febrile seizures (FS) was carried out from 1st February 2002 to 30th of January 2003. The proportion of patients with FS among all admitted patients was 7.6%. The mean age of patients with FS was 25.8 months, and the peak age of our patients was 18.19 months. Male to female ratio was 1.3:1. The mean age of the 1st attacks was 23.5 months, and that for recurrent attacks was 29.8 months. The mean temperature for the 1st attack was 39.7.C and that for recurrent attacks was 38.2.C. There was a history of prematurely in 13%, a family history of FS in 35% and epilepsy in 17%. Complex FS were seen in 27% and febrile status epilepticus in 3%. Upper and lower respiratory tract infection was the cause of fever in 67% of patients and the majority of them were admitted in the cold months of year. Lumbar puncture was done in 37% of patients. The commonest anticonvulsant used to terminate the seizures was intravenous diazepam in 78.7% followed by rectal diazepam in 8.9%. Intermittent diazepam (45%) was the most widely used anticonvulsant for prophylaxis, followed by phenobarbital (23%).

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Epidemiological and clinical features of hospitalized patients with febrile seizures in Ramadi, West of Iraq

Al-Zwaini

2015

J Pediatr Neurol

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“…[13][14][15][16][17] There was no satisfactory explanation for this sex predominant. 18 Study reveals that children with recurrent febrile seizures have a lower temperature at presentation than those with first febrile seizures (Table 1). 33% of our cases were found to have a family history of FSs and when compared with controls were found to be of statistical significance (p value=0.0008).…”

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Clinical profile of children with febrile seizure in a peripheral teaching hospital

Raju

2020

Int J Contemp Pediatr

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Background: Febrile seizure is a common problem in children below 5years of age. This study was conducted to evaluate the clinical profile of children presenting with febrile seizures and to identify the risk factors for recurrence of febrile seizures in these children in a teaching hospital.Methods: A matched case-control study was conducted over a year period from November 2017 to November 2018 in the Department of Pediatrics. One hundred patients with febrile seizures admitted, aged 6-60 months were matched with another one hundred children having fever but without seizure with the same age range, attending the same hospital during the same period. Patients with prior episodes of afebrile seizures, abnormal neurodevelopment, on anticonvulsants and not meeting the age criteria were excluded.Results: The mean age and standard deviation for cases were 25.8±15.19 months and for control was 29.9±18.5 months. Out of which 64% had a febrile seizure for the first time and 36% had recurrent febrile seizures and 64% were males. Simple febrile seizure and complex febrile seizure were observed in 76.7% and 23.3% of patients respectively. The majority of children (71.8%) had a generalized tonic-clonic seizure followed by tonic seizures. Upper respiratory tract infections were the commonest cause of fever in these children. Low temperature at the onset of Febrile Seizure (p=0.001), short duration of fever before the onset of Febrile Seizure (0.026) and atypical Febrile Seizure (p=0.022) were the risk factors for a recurrent febrile seizure.Conclusions: Febrile Seizure is a common pediatric problem seen in males, observed predominantly in children below the age of two years and simple febrile seizure was the commonest variety. Almost one-third of children with Febrile Seizure are at risk for recurrence at a later date. The risk factors for these recurrences are modest rise in body temperature at the onset of febrile seizure, the onset of seizure within 12 hours of fever and atypical presentation.

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20 Clinical Characteristics of Hospitalized Children with Febrile Seizure. Child Health Institute

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Epidemiological and clinical features of hospitalized patients with febrile seizures in Ramadi, West of Iraq

Epidemiological and clinical features of hospitalized patients with febrile seizures in Ramadi, West of Iraq

Clinical profile of children with febrile seizure in a peripheral teaching hospital

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