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febrile seizure

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Febrile seizure
Convulsions brought on by fever.
Mentioned in: Fever

febrile seizure,
a seizure associated with a febrile illness. Treatment depends on the age of the patient and the number of seizures. Generalized recurrent febrile seizures in children may be treated as grand mal epilepsy.

febrile seizure
Fever-induced seizure Pediatrics A generalized tonic-clonic–grand mal seizure seen in infants to toddlers after rapidly rising fevers lasting from seconds to minutes; most are idiopathic; FSs may be more common in families DiffDx Various intoxications, meningitis, encephalitis, roseola, or infection with HHV6, Shigella


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Nineteen patients were immunocompromised (leukemia, 6; posttransplant, 3; premature, 3; HIV, 2; others, 5), of whom 1 had a febrile seizure, 1 had encephalitis, 2 had meningitis, and 5 had other infections.
Kullmann of University College London disagree with Soltesz's view that the changes caused by febrile seizures might make further seizures more likely.
Influenza has been previously reported to be a major cause of febrile seizures (17).
 
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