Febrile seizures are the most common seizure disorder in childhood, affecting 2% to 5% of children between the ages of 6 and 60 months. Simple febrile seizures are defined as brief ( 15-minute) generalized seizures that occur once during a 24-hour period in a febrile child who does not have an intracranial infection, metabolic disturbance, or history of afebrile seizures. This guideline (a revi...

Febrile seizures are the most common seizure disorder in childhood, affecting 2% to 5% of children between the ages of 6 and 60 months. Simple febrile seizures are defined as brief ( 15-minute) generalized seizures that occur once during a 24-hour period in a febrile child who does not have an intracranial infection, metabolic disturbance, or history of afebrile seizures. This guideline (a revi...

Febrile seizures are the most common seizure disorder in childhood, affecting 2% to 5% of children between the ages of 6 and 60 months. Simple febrile seizures are defined as brief ( 15-minute) generalized seizures that occur once during a 24-hour period in a febrile child who does not have an intracranial infection, metabolic disturbance, or history of afebrile seizures. This guideline (a revi...

Febrile seizures are the most common seizure disorder in childhood, affecting 2% to 5% of children between the ages of 6 and 60 months. Simple febrile seizures are defined as brief ( 15-minute) generalized seizures that occur once during a 24-hour period in a febrile child who does not have an intracranial infection, metabolic disturbance, or history of afebrile seizures. This guideline (a revi...

Abstract Background Febrile seizure (FS) is the most common childhood seizures which occur in 2-5% of children. Studies about association between iron deficiency and febrile seizure have shown contradictory results. The purpose of this study was to compare the iron status of children with first febrile seizure and healthy control group. Materials and Methods In an analytic case-control ...

background: this study compares the clinical characteristics of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (mtle-hs) with those who have temporal lobe epilepsy (tle) due to other etiologies.   methods : in this retrospective study all patients with a clinical diagnosis of tle were recruited in a referral outpatient epilepsy clinic at shiraz university of medical scie...

background: febrile convulsion is one of the most common problems in children aged 5 months to 6 years. the aim of this study was to explore the effectiveness of educational program on mothers for prevention of febrile seizure in children. methods: in this clinical trial study, 88 mothers were chosen who were divided in to intervention and control groups, randomly. data of control and intervent...

background febrile seizure is one of the most prevalent pediatric diseases. an essential part of the physicians’ efforts is to decreasing the parents’ stress level when they confront febrile diseases in children. objectives this study was performed to compare the effects of acetaminophen and ibuprofen on controlling fever and preventing seizures in children with febrile seizure. patients and me...

OBJECTIVE To formulate evidence-based recommendations for health care professionals about the diagnosis and evaluation of a simple febrile seizure in infants and young children 6 through 60 months of age and to revise the practice guideline published by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in 1996. METHODS This review included search and analysis of the medical literature published since ...

Complex seizure characteristics in patients with a positive family history were studied to define familial phenotype subgroups of febrile seizures. A total of 51 children with one or more affected first degree relatives and 177 without an affected first degree relative were compared for history of complex characteristics of the initial febrile seizure. No difference was found in the frequency o...