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Etiology and Determinants of Neonatal Seizures: A cross-sectional study | |
Priyesh Sonavane, Ravish Kumar, Preeti Lata Rai | |
Background: Neonatal seizures are the most prevalent and recognisable clinical symptom of neurological dysfunction in the newborn baby. Neonatal seizures manifests as abnormal muscular activity or an autonomic changes. Neonatal brain is immature and is more prone for seizures. Objective: to find the details about neonatal seizures and its early diagnosis, better treatment and prognosis. Methods: Our study was carried out upon patients admitted in NICU with complaints of abnormal body movement at Rohilkhand Medical College and Hospital, Bareilly (U.P.). There were total 50 study participants. Result: Neonatal seizures were occurring more in term gestation, males, outborn deliveries, vaginal deliveries.42% seizures occurred within 1st24 hours of life.Subtle seizure was most common followed by multifocal-clonic seizure.HIE was the commonest etiology of seizures followed by meningitis. Most of the cases were hospitalized within a week of onset of neonatal seizures. Most of the cases got discharged from the hospital.Maximum APGAR score of at 5 minutes was 5.Maximum APGAR score of at 10minutes was 6. Conclusion: There was no statistical association of etiology with type of seizures or day of onset of seizures (p-value was more than 0.05).There was no statistical association of type of seizures with gestational age or day of onset of seizures (p-value was more than 0.05). |
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