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Childhood epilepsies
2. Saleh is a 2-year-old male who presented with a self-aborted generalized tonic clonic seizure, which lasted for few minutes with high-grade fever due to pharyngitis. His father who is now a mathematics teacher, used to have seizures with fever between ages 2-4 years. Saleh’s mother is asking whether her child is going to be epileptic in future or not. Best response is that you would tell her...
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The tragedy of epilepsy emerges from the combination of its high prevalence, impact upon sufferers and their families, and unpredictability. Childhood epilepsies are frequently severe, presenting in infancy with pharmaco-resistant seizures; are often accompanied by debilitating neuropsychiatric and systemic comorbidities; and carry a grave risk of mortality. Here, we review the most current bas...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Neurotherapeutics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1933-7213,1878-7479
DOI: 10.1007/s13311-014-0264-3