Epileptic Disorders
MENUPersons with onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy and nodding seizures have a more severe form of epilepsy with more cognitive impairment and higher levels of Onchocerca volvulus infection Volume 22, numéro 3, June 2020
TEST YOURSELF
(1) Which characteristics differ between persons with nodding syndrome and other forms of onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy?
(2) What is the median age at onset of nodding seizures?
(3) Which factors are associated with increased disability in persons with epilepsy in Maridi?
Answers
(1) Persons with nodding seizures present with more frequent seizures, more disabilities, are more often cognitively impaired, develop epileptic seizures at a younger age and present a higher level of O. volvulus infection.
(2) Nine years.
(3) Nodding seizures, a higher frequency of seizures, a longer duration of epilepsy, younger age, and no antiepileptic drug use.