Epileptogenic factors in localized epilepsies

EPILEPTOGENIC FACTORS IN LOCALIZED EPILEPSIES (ABSTRACT)^*. DISSERTATION. CURITIBA, 1998.

OTTO JESÚS HERNÁNDEZ FUSTES ^**

Purpose: Recognize the relation of the epileptogenic factors in people with localized epilepsies (LE).

Method: We accomplished a descriptive and prospective study of 100 patients with LE, older than 14 years old. We related the epileptogenic factors in prenatal, perinatal and postnatal. The data (clinicals, EEG, CT) were obtained by means of specific protocol.

Results: Most of the patients were inside of the interval age from 14 to 33 years old. The male gender prevailed with 57 patients and 13% reported a family history of epilepsy. The simple partial secondarily generalized seizures were the most frequent type (49 patients). The post-natal factors type prevailed with 43 patients. Association with risk factors was observed in 32 patients (pre and post natal in 16) and in 24 it was not possible do define such risks. The primogenic (first born), the instrumental childbirth and the cranial trauma were the pre-natal, peri-natal and post-natal factors more frequent, and the cranial trauma was the main risk factor separely for LE in our study.

Conclusion: The relationship between epilepsy antecedent relative and normal EEG and normal CT; abnormal EEG and risk factors; alteration in the CT and risk factors and normal CT and absence of post-natal risk factors showed to have statistical significance, as well as the absence of antecedents and presence of post-natal risk factors. We did not observe statistical significance when comparing the risk factors with the gender and the epileptic seizures.

KEY WORDS: epilepsy, epileptogenic factors, localized epilepsies, cranial trauma.

**Address: Serviço de Neurologia do Hospital Universitário Cajuru, Avenida São José 300, 80050-350 Curitiba PR, Brasil. E-mail: [e-mail]

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Fatores epileptogênicos nas epilepsias localizadas (Resumo). Dissertação de Mestrado, Universidade Federal do Paraná (Área: Medicina Interna). Orientador: Lineu César Werneck.

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  06 Dec 2000
• Date of issue
  Sept 1999