Medical comorbidities in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (functional seizures)

Neurological Sciences : Official Journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
Ali A Asadi-Pooya, Maryam Homayoun

Abstract

We investigated medical comorbidities in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES). We hypothesized that these patients commonly have significant medical comorbidities. In this retrospective study, all patients with PNES, who were diagnosed at Shiraz Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Iran, from 2008 until 2019, were investigated. Age, gender, age at seizure onset, seizure semiology, and characteristics, known medical (organic) comorbidities reported by the patients and video-electroencephalography recordings of all patients were registered routinely. During the study period, 272 patients with PNES-only had the inclusion criteria and were studied. Sixty-five patients (24%) reported having a medical (organic) comorbidity. The most commonly reported medical comorbidity was thyroid disorder. Age at onset (OR: 1.058; 95% CI: 1.026-1.090; p = 0.0001), duration of disease before the diagnosis (OR: 1.071; 95% CI: 1.025-1.119; p = 0.002), and sex (female) (OR: 1.97; 95% CI: 1.016-3.834; p = 0.04) were significantly associated with having medical comorbidities. While we did not have a control group to provide the number and type of medical problems that are expected in the general population, and therefore our results should b...Continue Reading

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