Fifty patients of various types of cerebral palsy were studied to find out an association between cerebral palsy, EEG abnormalities and development quotient. Seventy-six per cent patients had spastic cerebral palsy. Hypotonic cerebral palsy was the next common type (14\%). Athetosis and ataxic forms were found to be rare (2\% each). Epilepsy was associated with 56\% patients. Clinical types of seizures observed were: Generalised tonic-clonic (43\%), myoclonic (17.9\%), generalised tonic (10.7\%), partial simple (10.7\%) and partial complex (17.9\%). The incidence of seizures was highest in hypotonic type in which 85.7\% had epilepsy. Mean developmental quotient of cerebral palsy patients was 34.9\% with maximum retardation in hypotonic cerebral palsy (25.14\%). Sixty per cent of patients had abnormal EEG, out of these hypotonic patients had maximum (70\%) chances of EEG abnormality followed by spastic patients (55\%). Developmental retardation was more severe statistically in the patients with abnormal EEG than normal EEG.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Kaushik1997
%A Kaushik, A.
%A Agarwal, R. P.
%A Sadhna,
%D 1997
%J J Indian Med Assoc
%K Cerebral Palsy; Child; Child, Preschool; Electroencephalography; Epilepsy; Female; Humans; Infant; Male
%N 10
%P 552--4, 565
%T Association of cerebral palsy with epilepsy.
%V 95
%X Fifty patients of various types of cerebral palsy were studied to find out an association between cerebral palsy, EEG abnormalities and development quotient. Seventy-six per cent patients had spastic cerebral palsy. Hypotonic cerebral palsy was the next common type (14\%). Athetosis and ataxic forms were found to be rare (2\% each). Epilepsy was associated with 56\% patients. Clinical types of seizures observed were: Generalised tonic-clonic (43\%), myoclonic (17.9\%), generalised tonic (10.7\%), partial simple (10.7\%) and partial complex (17.9\%). The incidence of seizures was highest in hypotonic type in which 85.7\% had epilepsy. Mean developmental quotient of cerebral palsy patients was 34.9\% with maximum retardation in hypotonic cerebral palsy (25.14\%). Sixty per cent of patients had abnormal EEG, out of these hypotonic patients had maximum (70\%) chances of EEG abnormality followed by spastic patients (55\%). Developmental retardation was more severe statistically in the patients with abnormal EEG than normal EEG.
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abstract = {Fifty patients of various types of cerebral palsy were studied to find out an association between cerebral palsy, EEG abnormalities and development quotient. Seventy-six per cent patients had spastic cerebral palsy. Hypotonic cerebral palsy was the next common type (14\%). Athetosis and ataxic forms were found to be rare (2\% each). Epilepsy was associated with 56\% patients. Clinical types of seizures observed were: Generalised tonic-clonic (43\%), myoclonic (17.9\%), generalised tonic (10.7\%), partial simple (10.7\%) and partial complex (17.9\%). The incidence of seizures was highest in hypotonic type in which 85.7\% had epilepsy. Mean developmental quotient of cerebral palsy patients was 34.9\% with maximum retardation in hypotonic cerebral palsy (25.14\%). Sixty per cent of patients had abnormal EEG, out of these hypotonic patients had maximum (70\%) chances of EEG abnormality followed by spastic patients (55\%). Developmental retardation was more severe statistically in the patients with abnormal EEG than normal EEG.},
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