introduction: febrile seizure is the most common problem in pediatric neurology that occur s in 3– 4% of children. the purpose of this study was to evaluate demographic and clinical characteristics of first febrile seizures in children admitted to the hospital. methods: in a descriptive retrospective study, medical records of children with first febrile seizure, admitted between march 2004and a...

introduction: febrile seizure is the most common type of seizure that occurs in 3– 4% of children below the age of 5 years. the purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of recurrence of febrile and afebrile seizures after the first febrile seizure. methods: in a descriptive prospective study, 139 children (6months to 6years old) admitted between march 2004and august 2005 at yazd sha...

Background and Objective: Febrile seizures are one of the most common neurological disorders in children. The aim of this study was to investigate the extent of abnormal EEG reports and their association with other risk factors of febrile seizures. Material &Method: In this prospective observational study, all patients with febrile seizure admitted in Mousavi Hospital in Zanjan, Iran, from Ap...

objective febrile seizure is the most common seizure disorder in children. its pathophysiology is not fully understood yet; however, some risk factors have been cited for it. iron is one of these influential elements and is involved in the metabolism of some neurotransmitters which are reduced in irondeficiency anemia and also increases the sensitivity of neural cells during a febrile episode. ...

how to cite this article: karimzadeh p, rezayi a, togha m, ahmadabadi f, derakhshanfar h, azargashb e, khodaei f. the best time for eeg recording in febrile seizure. iran j child neurol. 2014 winter; 8(1):20-25. objective some studies suggest that detection of epileptic discharge is unusual during the first postictal week of febrile seizure and others believe that eegs carried out on the day of...

objective febrile seizure is the most common problem in pediatric neurology that occurs in 3- 4 % of children. the purpose of this study was to determine febrile seizure recurrence frequency and to evaluate its risk factors. materials & methods in a descriptive prospective study, 139 children (6 months to 6 years) with first febrile seizure were admitted to yazd shaheed sadoughi hospital betwee...