Intracerebral Hemorrhage, Acute Symptomatic Seizures, and Epilepsy

Abstract

Investigators at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; and Johns Hopkins University, studied the incidence and risk factors for seizures and epilepsy in 73 children with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) including 20 perinatal subjects (>37 weeks gestation to 28 days) and 53 aged >28 days to <18 years at presentation.

Keywords

• intracerebral hemorrhage
• acute symptomatic seizures
• electroencephalographic-only seizures