Prevalence of epilepsy in adults at Tourou, in northern Benin

Adoukonou, Thierry; Djagoun, Edwige; Tognon-Tchegnonsi, Francis; Sego-Sounon, D.; Kouna-Ndouongo, Philomène; Houinato, Dismand

doi:10.1684/mst.2013.0158

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“…In present study, seizure are classified as focal seizure and generalized seizure ( Table 7). According to population based studies on seizures at Tourou, in northern Benin by Adoukonou T. 3 In this study 1031 subjects, 632 were men of which 71% have generalized tonic clonic seizure. In the study of Hamdy NA, in this study of 341 patients 74% patients have generalized tonic clonic seizure.…”

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“…Study done by Zu Chan in 698 patients with uremia, majority had generalized seizures, had myoclonic seizure and 2 had secondary generalized seizures. 3…”

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“…To study the symptoms and signs in patients with seizure disorder; (2) to find out the etiology of seizure in patients with seizure disorder; (3) to study the correlation between electroencephalography, radiological and etiology of patients with seizure disorder. A total of 100 patients admitted with sign and symptoms suggestive of seizure disorder in Dr. V. M. Government Medical College, Solapur, Maharashtra, India during the period of 1 st December 2012 to 31 st July 2014.…”

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Clinical profile of seizure disorder in hospitalized patients

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Dawar

2016

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Background: Hughling Jackson in 1870 described first "seizures as intermittent derangement of central nervous system and abnormal and excessive discharge of central nervous tissue on muscles" and the same was refined further. Average incidence rate for epilepsy is 0.3-0.5% in patients. Methods: A total of 100 patients admitted with sign and symptoms suggestive of seizure disorder in tertiary care hospital during the period of 1 st December 2012 to 31 st July 2014. A detailed clinical history, examination and investigation with following patients were included in study; (1) age of the patients above 13 years; (2) patient present with history of seizure the cross sectional observational study was carried out at Dr.

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“…Study done by Zu Chan in 698 patients with uremia, majority had generalized seizures, had myoclonic seizure and 2 had secondary generalized seizures. 3…”

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2016

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“…In Benin, prevalence of epilepsy range from 6 to 40‰ 20 21 with 3 to 7‰ epileptics among pregnant women. 22 In a context of available data on the pregnancy outcome among women with epilepsy in Benin, this study was conducted to determine the obstetric rate complications in epileptic women who had experienced pregnancy and identify its associated factors.…”

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Prognosis of Pregnancy in Epileptics in Benin: A Case–Control Study

Adoukonou

Agbétou

Sidi

et al. 2020

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Objective The main purpose of this article is to define prognosis of pregnancies in epileptic women in Benin. Methods This was a case–control study that included 54 epileptic women who had at least one pregnancy matched to 162 controls on age, pregnancy term, and monitoring center. Information about epilepsy, treatment, pregnancy, and childbirth were collected. A logistic regression with odds ratio (OR) calculation was used to study the association. Results During pregnancy 22.22% of epileptic women experienced an increase in seizure frequency. Epileptics had more frequent miscarriages (OR: 1.84 [1.01–3.51]), more incidents during pregnancy (OR: 4.03 [1.04–15.60]), and were more often hospitalized (OR: 3.35 [1.46–7.69]) than women without epilepsy. They, more often, had premature children before 37 weeks of amenorrhea (OR: 2.10 [1.12–3.91]) and gave birth to low-birth-weight children (OR = 2.17 [1.00–4.76]). Conclusion Occurrence of a pregnancy in an epileptic woman in Benin is at risk and requires multidisciplinary monitoring by both neurologist and obstetrician to reduce complications.

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Aspects socioculturels de l’épilepsie dans une communauté rurale au nord Bénin en 2011

Adoukonou

Tognon-Tchegnonsi

Gnonlonfoun

et al. 2015

Bull. Soc. Pathol. Exot.

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Despite the development of knowledge in diagnosis and therapeutic of epilepsy it remains to be cause of rejection and stigma. We aimed to study the knowledge, attitude and practice toward epilepsy and the stigma in a rural community. The cross-sectional study was carried out from 1st to 31st March 2011 in a rural community (Tourou) at Parakou in the northern Benin. It was a door-to-door survey and included 1 031 adults older than 15 years. The diagnosis of epilepsy was based on International League Against Epilepsy. The specific questionnaire was used and comprised 16 items which explored knowledge, attitude and practice toward epilepsy. Another questionnaire was developed to study stigma among epileptics. The associated factors to the misconception toward epilepsy have been studied. All adults have heard about epilepsy and knew the generalized tonic-clonic form of epilepsy and knew someone with epilepsy. Hereditary (98%) and witchcraft (97.9%) and social problems (65.9%) were mentioned as the most cause of epilepsy. Epilepsy was cited as contagious disease by 90.6% of respondents and the associated factors were the sex (p=0.005) and occupational status (0.024). The saliva (98.1%) and witness of the place of seizure (97.8%) were the frequently mentioned modes of transmission. 65% of all mentioned that epileptics can not get marriage and the main associated factors to this belief were the advanced age (p=0.008) and occupational status (0.004). 64.4% believed that children with epilepsy shouldn't be attend to school, age (0.004), ethnicity (0.047) and occupational status were the associated factors with this misconception. Despite 99.4% considered epilepsy as treatable disease only 12.7% would have referred epileptics to the hospital. All the seven epileptics considered themselves as victims of stigma and rejected by their family and the community. The misconceptions associated to the epilepsy can explain the stigma and the therapeutic gap in this rural community.

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Prevalence of epilepsy in adults at Tourou, in northern Benin

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Clinical profile of seizure disorder in hospitalized patients

Clinical profile of seizure disorder in hospitalized patients

Prognosis of Pregnancy in Epileptics in Benin: A Case–Control Study

Aspects socioculturels de l’épilepsie dans une communauté rurale au nord Bénin en 2011

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