Salazar ZA, Ramos DEE, Aguilar HR, Hernández PJ

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Introduction. Epilepsy is a disease known since former ages that affects wide humans groups, with multiple etiology and many sorts of presentations, distribution varies in order of geographIc zones and their inhabitants. People with epilepsy treated at the Military Central Hospital are different from groups treated in other institutions in many forms.
Objective. To describe the most common etiology, distribution by sex and age, in addition to diagnosis means, follow-up and kind of seizure in people treated at the Military Central Hospital.
Material and method. Information was obtained from Military Central Hospital’s files and concentrated on information leafs siting down objective data. Information was put on trial for statistic test.
Results. Males predominated, most patients were between 21-30 years old, there were differences between male’s and female’s results checked by statistic test.
Conclusions. Most patients with epilepsy treated at Military Central Hospital were males, idiopatic cases were the most common as tonic-clonic seizures were too. CAT, EEG and lumbar puncture were the main diagnosis means used.

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