Abstract

ROZO HERNANDEZ, Víctor Manuel  and  IZQUIERDO, Álvaro. Characterization of the risk factors for patients suffering from difficult-to-control epilepsy in a fourth level hospital in Bogota-Colombia. Acta Neurol Colomb. [online]. 2014, vol.30, n.4, pp.234-239. ISSN 0120-8748.

Objective: To give a characterization of the antecedent risks of a group of patients meeting the criteria for difficult-to-control epilepsy in Fundación Hospital de la Misericordia (Bogotá-Colombia). Materials and Methods: Study: series of cases (210 patients) with approaches of refractory epilepsy. Statistical analysis: SPSS, version10.0 Results: The pathologies that give way to difficult-to-control epilepsy are: premature childbirth, fetal suffering, hypoglycemia in newborn and meningitis. The patients are children with a delay of the psychomotor development and family antecedents of epilepsy. Discussion: It is necessary to advance programs for children with high risk for neurological pathologies characteristic of preterm infants or complications before and after delivery from the units of care intensive newborn. Conclusions: Premature babies are the most affected by difficult-to-control epilepsy, this study does not yet identify factors related with the development of refractory epilepsy, but it outlines hypothesis for future studies.

Keywords : Refractory epilepsy; Risk factors for childhood epilepsy; Epilepsy.

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