Different types of seizures in patients with chronic renal diseases under regular heamodialysis program

ABSTRACT

This retrospective study was designed to detect the frequency of seizures occurrence in patients with chronic renal failure undergoing regular heamodialysis in Al Gaber Nephrology center Al Ahsa Saudi Arabia ,130 patients were reviewed, seven of them were found to experience one or more seisures during thier dialysis program in the last year 5 of them were found to have tonic clonic seizures, one with partial seizures and one with partial passing into generalized seizures. Three of them were found to experience seizures during heamodialysis session and the others were experiencing seizures in between the dialysis sessions. From this study we could conclude that seizures in patients with chronic renal failure on regular heamodialysis program is an occasional event and not a chronic disorder