Background: Seizures are a common occurrence in paediatric emergency rooms all around the world.
The goal of this study was to learn more about the causes of convulsions in children aged one month to fourteen years old.
This cross-sectional study looked at 120 children who were brought to a tertiary care hospital's paediatric department with convulsions between June 2014 and May 2015.
A complete blood count, blood sugar, serum calcium, magnesium, and electrolytes were all examined on all of the kids. Mantoux, chest X-ray, liver biopsy, Electroencephalography, lumbar puncture and cerebrospinal fluid analysis, ultrasonography cranium, computed tomography brain, or magnetic resonance imaging brain were all used depending on the clinical circumstances.
We discovered that 46.7 percent of the children had febrile seizures, 19.2% had a seizure disorder, 15% had cerebral palsy, 5.8% had viral encephalitis, 3.3 percent had pyogenic meningitis, 1.7 percent had neurocysticercosis, 0.8 percent had metabolic disorders, and 0.8 percent had a traumatic brain injury, with the cause of seizures unknown in 6.6 percent of the children.
Conclusion: Children's seizures necessitate a thorough evaluation to establish the underlying pathology causing the seizures.Author (S) Details
Shanthi Ramesh
Department of Pediatrics, Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
S. Sundari
Department of Pediatrics, Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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