RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Epidemiological study of epilepsy from a tertiary care hospital in kingdom of Saudi Arabia
JF Neurosciences Journal
JO Neurosciences (Riyadh)
FD Prince Sultan Military Medical City
SP 223
OP 226
DO 10.17712/nsj.2018.3.20180062
VO 23
IS 3
A1 Shahid, Rizwana
A1 Nazish, Saima
A1 Zafar, Azra
A1 Aljafaari, Danah
A1 Alabdali, Majed
A1 Ishaque, Noman
A1 Alzahrani, Bayan A.
A1 Alkhamis, Fahad A.
YR 2018
UL http://nsj.org.sa/content/23/3/223.abstract
AB Objectives: To identify the types of seizures and describe the clinical features, EEG and radiological findings among patients with epilepsy.Methods: In this retrospective epidemiological study, we analyzed the medical records of the patients with the diagnosis of epilepsy during the study period (January 1st 2016- December 2016)Results: The study included 184 patients, 91 (49.5%) were males and 93 (50.5%) females. Age ranged between 12 and 85 years (mean 35.4±19.5 SD years). Most of the patients 150 (82%) had Generalized tonic clonic seizures followed by focal onset in 27 (14%) of the patients. Main EEG abnormality was focal to bilateral was recorded in 53 (41%), idiopathic/ cryptogenic epilepsy was diagnosed in 61% of the patients. The most common abnormalities on brain imaging were temporal/hippocampal atrophy/stroke. The most common cause of symptomatic epilepsy was stroke found in 20(11%) followed by post infectious epilepsy and head trauma.Conclusion: Seizure types, EEG characteristics and etiologies of symptomatic epilepsy in our cohort of patients are in accordance with the current literature. Slight discrepancy observed in gender distribution and etiologies for symptomatic epilepsy compared with other studies from Saudi Arabia need to be studied further by prospective and population base studies.