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Volume 13 Issue 2 (February) 2024

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Clinical Profile of Young Onset Epilepsy - An Observational Study in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Eastern India
Dr. Nirmalya Mallick, Dr. Soumyasha Ghosh, Dr. Saumyajit Ghosh

Background: Epilepsy describes a condition in which a person has a risk of recurrent seizures due to a chronic, underlying process. Today people with epilepsy are confronted with an array of confusing, but often effective, treatments. The purpose of the present study is to observe the type of epilepsy in young onset epilepsy patients admitted in or attending R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata. Methods: This was an hospital based descriptive, observational study, conducted at Department of General Medicine and Department of Neuro- medicine, R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, from January 2021 to June2022. A sample size of 127 were considered for this study after meeting the inclusion and exclusion criteria.Data were entered into a Microsoft excel spreadsheet and then analyzed by SPSS (version 24; SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Result:The mean age of the patients is found to be 34.3±10.4 years where as the age of onset of the disease is 26.1±6.5. 54.3% of the patients is male and 45.7% is female. In the present study 59.06% of the patients experienced generalized onset epilepsy while 40.94% of the patients experienced focal onset epilepsy. In MRI examination 44.9% of the cases were found to have abnormal and 55.1% cases were found to have normal findings. EEG examination was abnormal in 68.15% of the cases and normal in 31.5% of the cases. 81.15% of male and 75.86% of female patients are found to have good drug compliance.Conclusion:Incidence of generalized onset epilepsy shows a falling trend and focal onset seizure shows the reverse trend as the age advances and males are more affected than female.

 
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