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2149964

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-4-16
pubmed:abstractText
We report on the incidence of seizures in 113 patients with Down Syndrome (DS), 43 coming from the OASI Institute for Research on Mental Retardation and Brain Aging, Troina, and 70 from the outpatient clinic of the Department of Pediatrics, University of Catania. We obtained the following results: 15 (13.2%) patients had seizures; 6 (5.3%) febrile seizures (FS) and 9 (7.9%) afebrile seizures (aFS). Among the latter group 2 patients had generalized tonic-clonic seizures, 3 partial complex seizures, and 4 infantile spasms. The seizures appeared early in life. Only 2 adult patients had seizures. These results suggest that patients with DS show a higher incidence of FS and of aFS than non-DS individuals. Seizures in DS may be an epiphenomenon of the neurological abnormalities, both anatomical and functional, usually observed in these patients.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1040-3787
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
298-300
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Seizures in patients with trisomy 21.
pubmed:affiliation
Oasi Institute for Research on Mental Retardation and Brain Aging, Troina, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article