Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings in Hospitalized Children with a Final Diagnosis of Seizure in Golestan Hospital

Abstract

Seizure disease is a clinical manifestation of synchronized and elevated abnormal discharge of neurogens originally present in the cerebral cortex. This sudden abnormal cerebral stimulation is intermittent and usually short-lived and self-limiting, which lasts from a few seconds to a few minutes. In the present study, which was conducted at Ahvaz Golestan hospital, 200 children aged 2 months to 14 years old with seizure that had referred to the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) ward in 2013, were studied. Information regarding the patients was extracted during the study, included the patient's gender, age, presence of fever, cause of seizure, type of seizure, date of referral, presence of Status Epilepticus (SE), duration of hospitalization, deaths caused by the seizure, and neurological examination. According to the obtained results, it was found that out of a total of 200 selected patients, about 128 (64%) were male and 72 patients (36%) were female. The average age in male and female patients was 26.4 and 25. 5 months, respectively. The results showed that percentage of catching among males and females was 65.5% and 34.5%, respectively. Febrile seizure had the highest percentage (68.2%), which means it was of higher importance, so that among 200 selected patients, febrile seizure involved 137 patients and, as indicated, its value was much higher than other factors.