Electroencephalographic and epidemiological characterization of patients with West Syndrome
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https://doi.org/10.36958/sep.v8i2.373Keywords:
West syndrome, hypsarrhythmia, epileptic activityAbstract
OBJECTIVE: to describe the electroencephalographic findings in children with West syndrome treated in the Pediatric Neurology Unit of San Juan de Dios General Hospital. METHODS: descriptive, retrospective, observational. RESULTS: the basic electroencephalographic activity found in the patients studied according to sex showed a predominance of abnormal results in males with 52.58% and females with 44.44%. It is noteworthy that 2.78% of the males had a normal result, which was not observed in any female participant. CONCLUSIONS: abnormal EEG activity, in order of frequency, was typical hypsarrhythmia (36.11%), focal epileptic activity (16.67%), generalized epileptic activity and hypsarrhythmia with episodes of voltage attenuation (11.11%). The other types of abnormalities did not have clear predominance.
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