Corresponding Author: A.Tavassoli MD Ali-Asghar Children’s Hospital,Tehran, Iran Emial: [email protected] Abstract Objective The first attack of unprovoked seizure is more frequent than recurrent one and neuroimaging is one of the main parts of the evaluation of these attacks in order to demonstrate the cause and predict the prognosis. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence...

Seizure is a common presentation in the emergency care setting, and new-onset epilepsy is the most common cause of unprovoked seizures. The patient history and physical examination should direct the type and timing of laboratory and imaging studies. No single sign, symptom, or test dearly differentiates a seizure from a nonseizure event (e.g., syncope, pseudoseizure). Electroencephalography is ...

Electroencephalogram (EEG) is the record of the brain electrical activity and it contains valuable information related to the different physiological and pathological states of the brain. Epilepsy is known to be the most prevalent neurological disorder in humans and seizure discharge is the main characteristics of the epilepsy. EEG is an important clinical tool for the diagnosis and monitoring ...

INTRODUCTION Convulsive status epilepticus is a common emergency condition in paediatric practice. Classically, it is defi ned as continuous or recurrent seizure activity lasting for longer than 30 min in which the patient does not regain baseline mental status.1 Commonly, intervention is recommended after only 5 min of seizure activity2 as neuronal damage may begin to occur after this period, ...

Case presentation: Male patient, 7 years old, first child of a non-consanguineous couple, previously healthy and with normal neuropsychomotor development, presented recurrent nausea vomiting associated facial paresthesia. Neurological examination was initially normal. 3 months after the onset condition, he started daily myoclonic seizures hospitalized for investigation. During clinical investig...

We characterised the pathophysiology of seizure onset in terms of slow fluctuations in synaptic efficacy using EEG in patients with anti-N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDA-R) encephalitis. EEG recordings were obtained from two female patients with anti-NMDA-R encephalitis with recurrent partial seizures (ages 19 and 31). Focal electrographic seizure activity was localised using an empirical Ba...

how to cite this article: ghofrani m. approach to the first unprovoked seizure- part i. iran j child neurol. 2013 summer; 7(3): 1- 5.   the approach to a child who has experienced a first unprovoked generalized tonic-clonic seizure is challenging and at the same time controversial. how to establish the diagnosis, ways and means of investigation and whether treatment is appropriate, are differen...

Objective NA. Background Cerebral cortical encephalitis is a recently recognized syndrome of myelin-oligodendrocyte-glycoprotein-antibody-associated disease (MOGAD), yet most descriptions report single episodes without recurrence. Design/Methods Case recurrent cerebral in MOGAD. Results This case 32-year-old patient who initially developed meningoencephalitis when he was three. He stable until ...

Although Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) can affect all age groups, severity of clinical presentation among children and newborns are milder than in adults. Along with classical symptoms, atypical could be noted the neonate. We report here a case neonatal COVID-19 where newborn infant presented fever, lethargy, respiratory distress recurrent seizure. Early detection prompt management is prerequi...