obstetric labor complications/seizures

A family history of seizures, preexisting brain damage, or birth complications may modify the long-term risk of epilepsy after febrile seizures. The authors evaluated the association between febrile seizures and epilepsy in a population-based cohort of 1.54 million persons born in Denmark

OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical significance of temporal pole abnormalities (temporopolar blurring, TB, and temporopolar atrophy, TA) detected by using 3 Tesla MRI in the preoperative workup in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy due to hippocampal sclerosis (TLE-HS) who underwent

OBJECTIVE The recent "Report of the ILAE Commission on Classification and Terminology" recommends an epilepsy classification that gives more emphasis to the underlying structural or metabolic cause rather than to the localization of the epileptogenic zone. The aim of the present study was to

To clarify the etiology of epileptic illnesses in children a detailed questionnaire was prepared, with questions on both genetic factors and the possibility of pre-, peri- and postnatal injury. The questionnaire was filled out by the parents of 422 epileptic children and those of 150 healthy control

BACKGROUND Studies in women with epilepsy (WWE) regarding pregnancy and labour-complications have disclosed contradictory results. Our purpose was to investigate whether WWE have a higher risk of acute caesarean section (CS) or pregnancy complications than women without epilepsy or women with other

A seven year follow-up of an unselected group of 1964 children served for establishing the incidence and causes of epilepsy development. The analysis of the health state of the parents, fetal life and birth of this group of patients and a similar analysis of 576 epileptic children treated at the

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to define the incidence and clinical significance of amygdala sclerosis (AS) in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). METHODS Surgical specimens of the lateral amygdaloid nucleus and the hippocampus excised from 71 patients who were treated for medically

We investigated whether infants weighing over 2500 g who had experienced one or more of 14 late pregnancy or birth complications, but who were free of certain signs in the nursery period were at increased risk of cerebral palsy (CP). The signs evaluated were decreased activity after the first day of

BACKGROUND On average, female patients with epilepsy have 0.9 children, which is below the birth rate of healthy women. One reason is insufficient counselling. OBJECTIVE To summarize the current data relevant to counselling pregnant women with epilepsy. METHODS Discussion of research and

The objectives of this study were to determine if infants delivered with severe acidemia (cord umbilical arterial pH < 7.0) had short-term neurologic effects and whether infants with persistent bradycardia who received cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in the delivery room would be at greatest

During observation of 92 pregnancies, epileptic seizures, pregnancy complications and complications regarding the newborns were noticed with 67 women having epilepsy and correlated by means of following therapeutic aspects: without anticonvulsive therapy, monotherapy, combined therapy. Most of the

BACKGROUND We explored the association of 29 previously reported neonatal, perinatal, and prenatal conditions, and exposures with later diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in a large sample of children followed over multiple years. METHODS A retrospective case-cohort study was formed using

Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) is a serious birth complication affecting term and late preterm newborns. Although therapeutic hypothermia (cooling) has been shown to be an effective therapy for neonatal HIE, many cooled infants have poor long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes. In animal

BACKGROUND Therapeutic hypothermia has been associated with improved outcomes in term infants particularly in those who present with moderate hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). However, in the three major studies the time to initiate cooling was at approximately 4.5 postnatal hours. OBJECTIVE To