Clinico-radiologic profile of a dorsal variant of posterior cortical atrophy in a 55-year old female

Abstract

Females were more illiterate and unemployed compared to males, but higher number of males were unmarried. Tonic clonic seizures were more frequent in males. Specific epileptic syndromes as juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME), idiopathic generalized tonic clonic (IGTC) epilepsy, and temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) were more frequent in females (p = .01, p = .02, p = .02) while juvenile absence epilepsy (JAE) was more common in males (p = .02) More males had an underlying secondary etiology (p = .001). The commonest drug used was valproate (51.2%) which was more utilized by males while more females were prescribed CBZ and levetiracetam. Conclusions Significant differences between both sexes were observed in certain social impacts in addition to seizure syndromes, etiology and drug utilization.