title: Pediatric intracerebral hemorrhage: acute symptomatic seizures and epilepsy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Seizures are believed to be common presenting symptoms in neonates and children with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). However, few data are available on the epidemiology of acute symptomatic seizures or the risk for later epilepsy.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To define the incidence of and explore risk factors for seizures and epilepsy in children with spontaneous ICH. Our a priori hypotheses were that younger age at presentation, cortical involvement of ICH, acute symptomatic seizures after presentation, ICH due to vascular malformation, and elevated intracranial pressure requiring urgent intervention would predict remote symptomatic seizures and epilepsy.
  
  
  METHODS
  Prospective cohort study conducted between March 1, 2007, and January 1, 2012.
  
  
  METHODS
  Three tertiary care pediatric hospitals.
  
  
  METHODS
  Seventy-three pediatric subjects with spontaneous ICH including 20 perinatal (≥37 weeks' gestation to 28 days) and 53 childhood subjects (>28 days to <18 years at presentation).
  
  
  METHODS
  Acute symptomatic seizures (clinically evident and electrographic-only seizures within 7 days), remote symptomatic seizures, and epilepsy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Acute symptomatic seizures occurred in 35 subjects (48%). Acute symptomatic seizures as a presenting symptom of ICH occurred in 12 perinatal (60%) and 19 childhood (36%) subjects (P = .07). Acute symptomatic seizures after presentation occurred in 7 children. Electrographic-only seizures were present in 9 of 32 subjects (28%) with continuous electroencephalogram monitoring. One-year and 2-year remote symptomatic seizure-free survival rates were 82% (95% CI, 68-90) and 67% (95% CI, 46-82), respectively. One-year and 2-year epilepsy-free survival rates were 96% (95% CI, 83-99) and 87% (95% CI, 65-95), respectively. Elevated intracranial pressure requiring acute intervention was a risk factor for seizures after presentation (P = .01; Fisher exact test), remote symptomatic seizures, and epilepsy (P = .03, and P = .04, respectively; log-rank test).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Presenting seizures are common in perinatal and childhood ICH. Continuous electroencephalography may detect electrographic seizures in some subjects. Single remote symptomatic seizures occur in many, and development of epilepsy is estimated to occur in 13% of patients at 2 years. Elevated intracranial pressure requiring acute intervention is a risk factor for acute seizures after presentation, remote symptomatic seizures, and epilepsy.
authors: Section of Child Neurology, Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine,POBox 208064, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. lauren.beslow@yale.edu
authors: Lauren A
authors: LA
authors: Beslow
authors: Nicholas S
authors: NS
authors: Abend
authors: Melissa C
authors: MC
authors: Gindville
authors: Rachel A
authors: RA
authors: Bastian
authors: Daniel J
authors: DJ
authors: Licht
authors: Sabrina E
authors: SE
authors: Smith
authors: Argye E
authors: AE
authors: Hillis
authors: Rebecca N
authors: RN
authors: Ichord
authors: Lori C
authors: LC
authors: Jordan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D000927:Anticonvulsants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012307:Risk Factors; D012640:Seizures / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric
chemical_list: D000927:Anticonvulsants
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