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Impact of seizure control on headache characteristics in epileptic patients

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Neurosurgery.

Abstract

Background: Epilepsy and headache are the two most common neurologic disorders affecting individuals of all ages worldwide. The relation between headache and epilepsy is complicated, and the comorbidity of headache and epilepsy is still poorly understood.
Aim of the work: Study of headache characteristics in controlled and uncontrolled epileptic patients.
Methods: We evaluated headaches in 100 consecutive patients with epilepsy attending the outpatient clinic and epilepsy clinic at Sohag university hospital and performed interictal  EEG to all patients.
Results: In our study we found that the occurrence of headaches being linked to longer duration of epilepsy, high frequency of seizures and use of polytherapy of antiepileptics.
Conclusion: Control of seizures in epileptic patients help in controlling headaches and decrease its frequency.

DOI

10.21608/smj.2019.47680

Authors

First Name

Hazem

Last Name

Ibrahim

MiddleName

K.

Affiliation

Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University.

Email

hazem_ali@med.sohag.edu.eg

City

Sohag

Orcid

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Sayed

MiddleName

Abdelmonem

Affiliation

Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University.

Email

mohamedabdelmonaem@med.sohag.edu.eg

City

Sohag

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Thabet

MiddleName

Nasrelden

Affiliation

Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University.

Email

mohamed_hamdon@med.sohag.edu.eg

City

Sohag

Orcid

-

First Name

Alaaeldin

Last Name

sedky

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University.

Email

alaaeldin_farag@med.sohag.edu.eg

City

Sohag

Orcid

-

First Name

Mostafa

Last Name

Abdelmomen

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University.

Email

-

City

Sohag

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Volume

23

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

7013

Issue Date

2019-04-01

Receive Date

2019-03-14

Publish Date

2019-04-01

Page Start

158

Page End

163

Print ISSN

1687-8353

Online ISSN

2682-4159

Article File

SMJ_Volume 23_Issue 2_Pages 158-163.pdf

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https://smj.journals.ekb.eg/article_47680.html

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785

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Journal

Publication Title

Sohag Medical Journal

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https://smj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Impact of seizure control on headache characteristics in epileptic patients

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Created At

22 Jan 2023