EEG after Febrile Seizure is Predictive of Epilepsy

Abstract

Researchers in pediatric neurology and electroencephalography at the University of Yamanashi, Japan, studied the EEG in children referred within 7-20 days after a febrile seizure (FS), and determined the utility of localization of paroxysmal discharges as a predictor for subsequent epilepsy.

Keywords

• febrile seizure
• paroxysmal spike
• frontal paroxysms