Carlos Arteaga Rodríguez, Mariana Menine Kubis, Carlos Bruno Teixeira Arteaga, Otto Jesus Hernandez Fustes
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Psychiatric comorbidities (PC) occur more frequently in patients with epilepsy than in the general population. To determine the main PC associated with epilepsy and its association with demographic data and clinical features of epilepsy. METHODS: A retrospective study was carried out on patients with epilepsy at the Medical Specialties Center of the Municipal Health Department. Demographic data, crisis onset, time range of seizures evolution, type of epileptic seizures, types of epilepsy, etiology, brain injury, topographic location, hemispheric location, type of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), use of monotherapy or polytherapy, control of epileptic seizures and the PC were recorded...
June 2022: Journal of Epilepsy Research