Childhood epilepsies
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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 that Saleh’s risk of future epilepsy is
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