Research Article: Clinical Characteristics, Treatment Outcome and Associated Factors of Epilepsy Among Children at Hospitals of North-West Ethiopia
Abstract:
Epilepsy is a brain disorder caused by the chronic propensity to develop epileptic seizures. A clinical diagnosis of epilepsy is made if there have been at least two unprovoked seizures that occur more than h apart, one unprovoked seizure with a recurrence probability of more than % over the subsequent years., However, when epilepsy is clinically difficult to diagnose, as in childhood absence epilepsy, EEG may help support the diagnosis. However, EEG is not available in many centers in developing countries.
Introduction:
Epilepsy is a brain disorder caused by the chronic propensity to develop epileptic seizures. A clinical diagnosis of epilepsy is made if there have been at least two unprovoked seizures that occur more than h apart, one unprovoked seizure with a recurrence probability of more than % over the subsequent years. , However, when epilepsy is clinically difficult to diagnose, as in childhood absence epilepsy, EEG may help support the diagnosis. However, EEG is not available in many centers in developing countries.
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