Epilepsy Risk Factors Following Neonatal Seizures

Abstract

Clinical and polysomnographic risk factors as early predictors for the development of postnatal epilepsy were determined in 158 infants presenting with two or more seizures, in a study at Hospital Sao Lucas, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Keywords

• neonatal seizures
• perinatal asphyxia
• postnatal epilepsy