Clinical Presentation of Epilepsy among Adult Sudanese Epileptic Patients Seen In Sheik Mohamed Kheirs Friday Epileptic Clinic-SUDAN

Clinical and Demographic Profile of Person With Epilepsy in Tertiary Care Hospital of Bundelkhand Region, Central India

“…Murty et al (19) found that 10.4% cases had evidence of Neurocysticercosis, which is similar to our finding. A study done in Jaipur (11) and Sudan (12) found that EEG was abnormal in 58.9% and 64.8% respectively, which was higher than our finding. CT scan head was abnormal in 35% of cases in Jaipur study, which is similar to our finding.…”

“…As younger age group and people of poor socio-economic group are more affected by this condition, economic deprivation in the family could be more grievous. Family history of epilepsy was found in 20% of Sudanese epileptic patients, (12) which were more than our observation. In western countries, partial seizures were more common than generalised seizures.…”

Clinical and Demographic Profile of Patients with Active Epilepsy: Experience From a Tertiary Care Hospital in Turkey

“…Radiologic abnormalities were detected in 40.7 % of all patients who underwent MRI with standard epilepsy protocol (33). Our findings about neuroimaging abnormalities were correlated with previous studies (24,34,35). In additon, two studies conducted in Iran and Japan reported that brain CT/MRI was abnormal in 26.6% and 27.4% respectively, which was lower than our findings (25, 36).…”

“…In our study, IEDs were detected in 58.3 % of all patients. Similar results have been shown in studies which were conducted in Japan, Jaipur and Sudan (34,36,37). About 60-70% of patients with epilepsy respond well to monotherapy with an appropriate AED.…”