Comparative clinical study of preterm and full-term newborn neonatal seizures.

نویسندگان

  • Manoel R R Holanda
  • Aurea N de Melo
چکیده

OBJECTIVE To compare the characteristics of neonatal seizures between preterm and full-term infants in intensive care unit. METHOD A prospective study was developed with 104 high-risk newborn, 30 preterm and 74 full-term infants, with clinical seizures. The dependent variable was gestational age. STATISTICAL ANALYSES Fisher's exact test, odds-ratio and Mann Whitney U test. RESULTS There were significant differences (p<0.05): i) Premature neonates develop neonatal seizures later, probably related to the etiologies of the seizures; ii) Etiologically, there is a predominance of peri-intraventricular hemorrhage in preterm and of asphyxia in full term neonates; iii) Clonic seizures are most frequent in preterm and subtle seizures in full term neonates. CONCLUSION Although the study had a clinical basis, it was possible to identify differences when the dependent variable was gestational age.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

دوره 64 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006