Abstract

Purpose. This study was conducted to investigate possible risk factors that could increase the occurrence of drug-resistanepilepsy (DRE), in hopes that the results could be used to educate the patient and their caregivers as well as increasearly detection efforts. Methods. Case control study was conducted at neurology outpatient pediatric RSDS between May to December 2022Risk factor of DRE such as sex, age of onset, type of seizure, initial seizure frequencies, history of cranial hemorrhagecerebral infection, febrile seizure, status epilepticus, neonatal seizure, neonatal asphyxia, family history of epilepsy, present of neurological deficit, electroencephalogram (EE) finding, and result of neuroimaging examination were obtainethrough anamnesis and clinical examination. Risk factors were analyzed with bivariate analysis and multivariate analysiA model was generated to predict probabilities of DRE in children with epilepsy. Results. DRE was observed in 84/137 (54%) patients. Bivariate analysis showed age of onset <1 years old (OR 2.31, p 0.016), initial seizure frequencies >5 times/day (OR 3.0, p = 0.011), neonatal seizure (OR 3, p = 0.034), presence of neuro-logic deficit (OR 3.1, p=0.002), and abnormality of EEG (OR 2.82, p = 0.013) are significantly associated with DRE. Logistiregression revealed that initial seizure frequencies > 5 times/day (OR=2.5; 95%CI 1.051 to 6.028; P=0.038), present oneurological deficit (OR=2.58; 95%CI 1.205 to 5.531; P=0.031), and EE abnormality (OR=2.84; 95%CI 1.170 6.914; P=0.021were significantly correlated with DRE. Our model sensitivity was 75.3% and 55.76% to predict DRE (AUC = 0.704, p=0.000Conclusion. Seizure onsets of >5 times, neurological deficits, and EEG abnormality were found to be associated with druresistant epilepsy.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5-10
Number of pages6
JournalRomanian Journal of Neurology/ Revista Romana de Neurologie
Volume22
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023

Keywords

  • drug resistant epilepsy
  • risk factors
  • seizures

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