Prognosis of ‘Lengthy’ Febrile Convulsions

Abstract

The outcome of children with status epilepticus (afebrile seizure >30 min) or lengthy febrile convulsions (>30 min) is reported by a British population based cohort study group that followed 16004 neonatal survivors born in one week in 1970 and assessed them after 5 and 10 years.

Keywords

• febrile convulsions
• status epilepticus
• pneumonia