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Background: Drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) is a major challenge in patients with epilepsy. The majority of previous studies evaluating the risk factors of DRE have been conducted in children. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the prevalence of DRE and its associated factors. Methods: All patients aged over 12 years with an established diagnosis of epilepsy since at least one year before the admission who were admitted with seizure to the neurology ward of a tertiary care hospital were consecutively included from 20th March 2014-19th March 2020. Patients were classified into two groups of DRE and non-DRE groups. The archived files of the patients were retrospectively reviewed and the data were extracted and recorded in a pre-prepared checklist. Results: A total of 410 patients were investigated. The most common causes of epilepsy were idiopathic (58.3%), vascular (23.9%), and cerebral palsy (CP)/developmental disorders (8.8%). There was no significant difference between DRE and non-DRE patients in terms of age, sex, seizure type (generalized/partial). Vascular causes were more prevalent in the non-DRE group, and idiopathic, post-traumatic/surgery, MS/degenerative, CP/develop

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Author

Parisa Mohammadzadeh; Surena Nazarbaghi

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)