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JUAREZ BELAUNDE, Alan Luis, GASHA TAMASHIRO, Carlos Gianpaulo, LAM MILAY, Luis et al. Características de las crisis epilépticas en niños con insuficiencia renal crónica terminal.. Rev Med Hered, ene./mar. 2008, vol.19, no.1, p.05-09. ISSN 1018-130X.

Seizures are a frequent complication seen in children with Terminal Chronic Renal Failure. Objective: To describe the characteristics of seizures seen in the children with Terminal Chronic Renal Failure. Material and Methods: Retrospective study, type series of cases. There were included 24, 14-year-old minor patients of both sexes by IRC-T who presented at least an episode of epileptic attack, attended in the Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia between January, 1998 and March, 2006. Results: We found 24/188 (12,7%) prevalence of seizures in the population, 18/24 (75%) of children were on chronic dialysis while they present the first episode of seizures, the most frequent type of seizures were partial crisis (41.6%); we found that the more frequent etiology of Terminal Chronic Renal Failure was glomerulopathies and the most frequent finding on the CT scan was the parenchymal hemorrhage. Conclusions: The frequency of seizures in children with Terminal Chronic Renal Failure were less frequent than the frequency found in the revised literature. (Rev Med Hered 2008;19:1-4).

Palabras llave: Children; terminal chronic renal failure; seizures; dialysis.