RT Book, Section
A1 Misra, Sunita N.
A1 Seto, Elaine S.
A2 Kline, Mark W.
SR Print(0)
ID 1182923414
T1 Febrile Seizures
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 23e
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259588594
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182923414
RD 2024/04/19
AB The  National  Institutes  of  Health  (NIH)  defines  febrile  seizure  as  an  event  in  infancy  or  childhood  usually  occurring  between  3  months  and  5  years  of  age  associated  with  a  fever  but  without  evidence  of  intracranial  infection  or  defined  cause  for  the  seizure.  The  International  League  Against  Epilepsy  (ILAE)  further  refined  the  definition  to  include  infants  older  than  1  month  of  age  without  prior  neonatal  seizures  or  unprovoked  seizures  who  did  not  meet  criteria  for  acute  symptomatic  seizures.  Febrile  seizures  occur  in  approximately  2%  to  5%  of  infants  and  young  children  in  the  United  States  and  as  many  as  9%  to  14%  of  children  in  Japan,  India,  and  Guam,  rendering  it  the  most  common  neurologic  disorder  in  this  age  group  and  the  most  common  type  of  convulsive  event  in  children  younger  than  5  years  of  age.