A pediatric case series of abdominal epilepsy
| Autor: | Abhisek Saren, Kalyanbrata Mondal, S. Sarkar, Rakesh Mondal, Toshibananda Bag |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Abdominal pain Pediatrics India Disease Epilepsy Recurrence Pediatric surgery medicine Humans Child Retrospective Studies business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Incidence Infant Retrospective cohort study Electroencephalography medicine.disease Abdominal Pain Anesthesia Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female Abdominal epilepsy Abdominal symptoms Epilepsies Partial medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | World journal of pediatrics : WJP. 10(1) |
| ISSN: | 1867-0687 |
| Popis: | Abdominal epilepsy (AE) is an infrequent cause of recurrent abdominal pain in children. It is characterized by paroxysmal episodes of abdominal pain, a variety of other abdominal complaints, electroencephalogram abnormalities, and response to anti-epileptic agents. We described the clinical profile of six patients with AE. We conducted a retrospective survey of AE in children from the records of the hospital. The diagnosis of AE was dependent on recurrent abdominal symptoms, subtle central nervous system abnormalities, electroencephalogram abnormalities and response to anticonvulsant agents. The six patients were diagnosed with AE. The incidence of the disease was 0.07% in all admissions to the pediatric ward. Recurrent pain was common in all patients except two who had additional recurrent vomiting. In this series, the boy to girl ratio (1:2) was unequal. High suspicion is required for the diagnosis of AE after exclusion of other possible causes. |
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