title: [Provoking factors for relapses in the course of epilepsy].
abstract: We studied factors causing the failure of remission and relapse of epileptic seizures in 24 patients who underwent clinical examination using electroencephalography and computed tomography (CT and MRI). There were 20,8% patients with idiopathic epilepsy, 33,3% with symptomatic epilepsy and 45,8% with cryptogenic epilepsy. The analysis of provoking factors was conducted in the groups of patients stratified by the number of relapses. The following factors were considered: iatrogenia, disturbances of routine (sleep deprivation, alcohol consumption, stress etc), lack of compliance, changes in the treatment regime, delivery in women, puberty, cranial-brain trauma. The data of their frequency in each group are presented.
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Rokotianskaia
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Karlov
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010349:Patient Compliance; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D012008:Recurrence; D012074:Remission Induction; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D055815:Young Adult