Increased Prevalence of Epilepsy Associated with Severe Falciparum Malaria in Children

Purpose: Multiple, prolonged, generalized, or focal seizures are common in children with severe malaria, with or without coma. In other contexts, such seizures have been associated with the development of epilepsy. The relation between falciparum malaria and epilepsy is undetermined; thus we measure...

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Published in:	Epilepsia (Copenhagen) Vol. 45; no. 8; pp. 978 - 981
Main Authors:	Carter, Julie A., Neville, Brian G. R., White, Steven, Ross, Amanda J., Otieno, Godfrey, Mturi, Neema, Musumba, Cris, Newton, Charles R. J. C.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	350 Main Street , Malden , MA 02148 , U.S.A Blackwell Science Inc 01-08-2004 Blackwell
Subjects:	Africa Biological and medical sciences Child Comorbidity Electroencephalography - statistics & numerical data Epilepsy Epilepsy - diagnosis Epilepsy - epidemiology Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic - diagnosis Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic - epidemiology Falciparum malaria Female Headache. Facial pains. Syncopes. Epilepsia. Intracranial hypertension. Brain oedema. Cerebral palsy Humans Kenya - epidemiology Malaria, Cerebral - diagnosis Malaria, Cerebral - epidemiology Malaria, Falciparum - diagnosis Malaria, Falciparum - epidemiology Male Medical sciences Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes) Neurology Prevalence Seizures - diagnosis Seizures - epidemiology Seizures, Febrile - diagnosis Seizures, Febrile - epidemiology Severity of Illness Index Kenya Human Infection Protozoal disease Nervous system diseases Prevalence Malaria Falciparum malaria-Epilepsy- Prevalence-Child-Africa Epilepsy Central nervous system disease Parasitosis Child Cerebral disorder
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