Causes of fever in febrile seizures |
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| Authors: | K. Ramakrishan M.D. K. N. Mathew D.C.H. Kurian Thomas M.D. |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Child Healh Medical College, Kottayam, 686 008, Kerala |
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| Abstract: | The causes of pyrexia in 100 cases of febrile seizures were studied. The fever was due to a viral infection in 71 percent, primary complex in 15 percent, due to bronchopneumonia and lobar pneumonia in 8 per cent and 1 per cent cases were due to otitis media. No case of urinary tract infection, enteric fever or infective diarrhea was seen. |
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| Keywords: | Seizures infections viral fever primary complex |
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