Estudo de fatores clínicos preditivos para crises epilépticas após acidente vascular cerebral isquêmico

• Autor(a) principal: Fukujima, Marcia Maiumi [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 1996
• Outros Autores: Cardeal, Jose Osmar [UNIFESP], Lima, Jose Geraldo de Camargo [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0004-282X1996000200005; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/422
• topic: stroke; cerebral infarction; epilepsy; epileptic seizure; alcoholism; smoking; acidente vascular cerebral; infarto cerebral; epilepsia; crises epilépticas; etilismo; tabagismo

Preditive clinical factors for epileptic seizures after ischemic stroke. Clinical features of 35 patients with ischemic stroke who developed epilepsy (Group 1) were compared with those of 35 patients with ischemic stroke without epilepsy (Group 2). The age of the patients did not differ between the groups. There were more men than women and more white than other races in both groups. Diabetes melitus, hypertension, transient ischemic attack, previous stroke, migraine, Chagas disease, cerebral embolism of cardiac origin and use of oral contraceptive did not differ between the groups. Smokers and alcohol users were more frequent in Group 1 (p<0,05). Most patients of Group 1 presented with hemiparesis; none presented cerebellar or brainstem involvement. Perhaps strokes in smokers have some different aspects, that let them more epileptogenic than in non smokers.