A small proportion of patients develop epilepsy following a subarachnoid haemorrhage occurring during the first year of life. Predictors of the development of epilepsy in this patient population include the presence of a sudural haematoma and cerebral infarction.
J. Claassen and colleagues from the division of critical care neurology, the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, department of neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, United States, explored the effect that a subarachnoid haemorrhage occurring during the first year of life has on epilepsy outcomes.
For this prospective trial, the investigators examined 247 of 431 patients who experienced a subarachnoid haemorrhage during the first year of life and were still alive at a 12-month follow-up. These patients were followed over a period of five years.
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