Arturo Carpio, Carla Salgado, Daniela DiCapua, Agnes Fleury, Roberto Suastegui, Brenda Giagante, Ledda Aguilera, Alonso Quijada, Lilia Nuñez, Manuela Villanueva, Noel Plascencia-Alvarez, Pedro T Hamamoto Filho, Luis M Piedra, Carlos Silva-Rosas, Elizabeth A Kelvin
There are limited data on first seizure (FS) among adults in low and middle-income countries. We describe findings from a prospective cohort study involving 180 adults presenting with seizures in emergency departments in five Latin American countries. Overall, 102 participants (56.7%) had acute symptomatic seizures (ASyS) while 78 (43.3%) had unprovoked seizures (UPS). Among patients with ASyS, 55 (53.9%) had structural causes, with stroke (n = 24, 23.5%), tumor (n = 10, 9.8%), and trauma (n = 3, 3%) being the most frequent...
February 17, 2024: Epilepsia Open