The present study was performed to delineate the clinical, electroencephalographic and other laboratory characteristics of children with febrile convulsion and to evaluate the factors related to prognosis in 120 children who were admitted to Kang Nam General hospital with febrile convulsion from March 1982 to February 1986.
The results were as follows:
1. Male to female ratio was 1.7:1.
2. 76.8% of the children with febrile convulsion were under 3 years of age at the first episode of the febrile convulsion.
3. Incidence of a family history of convulsion was 21.7%.
4. The frequency of convulsion was one time in 78.3% of all cases, and the duration of the seizure was under 5 minutes in the most patients (78.3%).
5. The vast majority. of the febrile convulsion are generalized and brief,´ and the type´ of convulsion was clonic in 56.7%, tonic in 20%, focal in 10%, clonic-tonic in 9.2% and atonic in 2.5%.
6. The causes of febrile convulsion were upper respiratory tract infection in 58.3%, gastroenteritis & shigellosis in 8.4% respectively, peumonia & bronchitis in 6.7%, OMPA in 2.5%, chicken pox in 2.5%, and etc.
7. Among 56 patients who were followed up, the febrile convulsion was recurred in 69.7% and showed high recurrence rate especially when the first episode. was under 1 year old, and also non-febrile seizures were observed in 5 patients (8.9/0).
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