ALLMedicine™ Febrile Seizures Center

Dec 3rd, 2022 - Seizure is one of the most common neurologic conditions in children, occurring most often in the first year of life. Identification of provoking factors, such as fever, illness, head trauma, electrolyte disturbance, or central nervous system infec...

Nov 23rd, 2022 - Roseola infantum is a common viral disease that occurs during childhood worldwide. The purpose of this article is to familiarize pediatricians with the clinical manifestations, evaluation, diagnosis, and management of roseola infantum. A search wa...

Oct 27th, 2022 - Genetic epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS+) is an autosomal dominant familial epilepsy syndrome characterized by distinctive phenotypic heterogeneity within families. The SCN1B c.363C>G (p.Cys121Trp) variant has been identified in independ...

Oct 26th, 2022 - To determine if racial disparities exist in the management of febrile seizures in a large pediatric emergency department (ED), We performed a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of children 6 months to 6 years-old who presented to the ED with a...

Oct 13th, 2022 - Kleefstra syndrome is characterized by intellectual disability, autistic-like features, childhood hypotonia, and distinctive facial features. The majority of individuals function in the moderate-to-severe spectrum of intellectual disability althou...

May 8th, 2021 - In children, seizures represent an extremely heterogeneous group of medical conditions ranging from benign cases, such as a simple febrile seizure, to life-threatening situations, such as status epilepticus. Underlying causes of seizures also repr...

Jun 4th, 2008 - Febrile seizures are the most common seizure disorder in childhood, affecting 2% to 5% of children between the ages of 6 and 60 months. Simple febrile seizures are defined as brief (<15-minute) generalized seizures that occur once during a 24-hour...

Oct 4th, 2022 - The study will include three groups of children (100 for each): children with febrile seizures (group 1), febrile children without seizures (group 2), and healthy control children (group 3). Children included in this study will undergo: Thorough m...

Aug 18th, 2022 - Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is a chronically neurological disease characterized by progressive seizures, followed by a latency period of several years after various injuries including febrile seizures, infection, trauma, tumors, and vascular malf...

Jul 27th, 2022 - The study is a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, Phase 2 clinical trial that will assess the safety, tolerability, immunogenicity and protective efficacy of PfSPZ Vaccine and PfSPZ-CVac against naturally occurring malaria in 372 health...

Jan 31st, 2022 - Febrile seizures are one of the most common clinical diseases in pediatric neurology. It occurs between 6 months and 6 years of age and occurs in ~2-5% of children. According to the age, frequency, duration, and type of seizures FS is divided into...

Oct 27th, 2021 - Epilepsy was defined as the separate occurrence of two or more unprovoked seizures, manifested by involuntary motor, sensory, or autonomic, alone or in combination, and not diagnosed as neonatal or febrile seizures. Despite extensive studies, the ...

Nov 2nd, 2021 - Most children with simple febrile seizures (SFSs) can be safely managed without lumbar puncture or other diagnostic tests without risking delayed diagnosis of bacterial meningitis, new data gathered from a 15-year span suggest. Vidya R. Raghavan, ...

Oct 29th, 2021 - Most children with simple febrile seizures (SFSs) can be safely managed without lumbar puncture or other diagnostic tests without risking delayed diagnosis of bacterial meningitis, new data gathered from a 15-year span suggest. Vidya R.

May 24th, 2021 - Keeping newborns on antiseizure medication after acute neonatal seizures stopped did not change development outcomes or prevent epilepsy, a comparative effectiveness study showed. No difference was seen in functional neurodevelopment at age 24 mon...

Feb 7th, 2020 - BALTIMORE – Abnormal findings on overnight continuous EEG in patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are associated with a significantly increased risk of subsequent epilepsy, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the Ameri.

Feb 6th, 2020 - Fevers were no less common or less severe when influenza vaccine was delayed 2 weeks for children receiving DTaP and pneumococcal vaccinations, according to a randomized trial. MarianVejcik/Getty Images An increased risk for febrile seizures had b.