Febrile convulsions after 5 years of age: long-term follow-up.
- 1 December 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Child Neurology
- Vol. 15 (12), 811-813
- https://doi.org/10.1177/088307380001501209
Abstract
In order to examine the natural history of febrile convulsions occurring after 5 years of age, we studied 44 children in whom febrile convulsions persisted after 5 years of age (group 1) and compared their development of unprovoked seizures with a group of 195 children in whom febrile convulsions occurred before 5 years of age (group 2). All subjects of group 1 were re-evaluated at the mean age of 13.4 ± 1.7 years. The children in group 2 were followed up until they reached the same mean age as children in group 1 (13.1 ± 2.3 years). In group 1, we found a higher percentage of unprovoked seizures than in children with febrile convulsions with onset before 5 years of age (18.1% vs 7.4%, P < .05). Our data suggest that children with febrile convulsions after 5 years of age probably must be considered as a group of patients at risk of developing unprovoked seizures. (J Child Neurol 2000;15:811-813).Keywords
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