PMID: 16512616Mar 4, 2006Paper

Status epilepticus in hospitalized children

Przegla̧d lekarski
Sławomir KroczkaMarek Kaciński

Abstract

Status epilepticus (SE), as it was established in several analyses, occurs in at least 6% of patients with epilepsy. The prognosis, in the high degree, depends on the type and duration of SE, being worse in the case of symptomatic epilepsy, metabolic disease, neuroinfection and hypoxic injury of the brain. Results of therapy are dependent on the proper treatment and rapidity of its initiation as well. The aim of this research was to establish frequency and type of SE, time of duration and efficacy of treatment of SE in hospitalised children. 1505 children with epilepsy, aged 1 month to 18 years were hospitalised between 1996 and 2004 in the Department of Pediatric Neurology in Cracow. SE was diagnosed in 21 children of all groups, what makes 1.4%. The group consisted of 9 girls and 12 boys. SE appeared most frequently in children diagnosed with epilepsy during the first two years of life (76.2%). In majority of patients (66.66%) SE occurred in the first year, since falling ill with epilepsy (between 1 month and 12 years). In 6 children SE was shorter than 1 hour, in 11 children shorter than 3 hours and in 4 children longer than 3 hours. 14/21 children became seizure free in the Department of Pediatric Neurology, however in the ...Continue Reading

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