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Introducion: An epileptic seizure may be conceptualized as aparoxysmal pathological process in the brain of a heterogeneousetiology with heteromorphic clinical and electrophysiologicalmanifestation. Current research aimed to study the aetiologyof convulsions in relation to clinical, electrophysiological andradiological changes and management.Material and methods: It was a prospective study carried outon 50 patients of convulsions admitted in the medical wards.Patients with convulsions of all age groups were included inthis study.Results: The incidence of convulsions in those people below18 years of age was 30% and in adults above 50 years ofage was 30%. The incidence is not in confirmation withporter’s studies where it is highest above 80% in the childrenbelow 18 years age. Most common etiology in study wascerebrovascular accidents 13(26%) and followed by infractionin 10 cases(20%). Incidence of seizure was more in males thancompared to females. Most of the patients with seizures werepresented with generalised tonic clonic seizures(20 cases).Conclusion: Focal seizures were more commoner than othergroups of seizures. 20% of patients in this study remainedundiagnosed with obscure aetiology.
ABSTRACT
A case is reported of an 18 year-old female who ingested a toxic quantity of a hair dye containing paraphenylenediamine (PPD), and presented with severe metabolic acidosis, rhabdomyolysis leading to acute renal failure, and toxic myocarditis leading to myocardial dysfunction. Haemodialysis, cardiac supportive treatment, and ICU care resulted in complete recovery over a 1-month period.