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Postictal Assessment of Serum Copeptin Level in Children with Convulsion

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Pediatrics

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Background: The most prevalent form of childhood seizure disease is febrile convulsion. Measuring copeptin has been demonstrated to be helpful in a number of therapeutic indications for numerous diseases. This study aimed to assess the diagnostic role of serum copeptin in descriminating febrile convulsions from convulsions without fever. Patients and methods: This case-control study was carried out in Paediatric Department at Zagazig University Hospital and Kafr Sakr General hospital. A total of 51 patients were recruited and were divided into three groups; febrile convulsions group (A) included 17 patients, convulsions without fever group (B) included 17 patients and fever only (group C) included 17 patients. All the children were subjected to history taking, clinical examination and laboratory investigations including hematocrit, white blood count with differential, serum sodium, serum glucose, serum calcium level, C-reactive protein (CRP) and Serum copeptin. Results: There was no significant difference between groups regarding age and sex, there was a significant difference between the three studied groups as regards BMI (kg/m2) (17.55 ± 2.14 vs 16.88 ± 3.84 vs 14.92 ± 2.67, p = 0.03).There was no significant difference in copeptin levels between the 3 groups (p value >0.05). There was non significant difference with negative correlation between group C as regards copeptin with CRP (p > 0.05). Conclusion: Circulating copeptin has no diagnostic role in descriminating febrile convulsions from convulsions without fever.

DOI

10.21608/zumj.2024.265457.3136

Keywords

Febrile convulsion, Copeptin, children

Authors

First Name

Ehab

Last Name

Abdel Salam

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Abdel Hmeed

Affiliation

Pediatrics Department, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt

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ihabhalaby2002@hotmail.com

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First Name

Ezzat

Last Name

Amin Mohamed

MiddleName

Kamal

Affiliation

Pediatrics Department, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt

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dr_ezat_kamel@yahoo.com

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First Name

Lamiaa

Last Name

Kamel

MiddleName

Mahmoud

Affiliation

Clinical Pathology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt

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lamneg@gmail.com

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Zagazig

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Abd-Elhameed Ali

MiddleName

Sobhy

Affiliation

Pediatrics Department, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt

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ahmedhoras1991@gmail.com

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First Name

Elsayed

Last Name

Taha Ibrahim

MiddleName

Abdelaziz

Affiliation

Pediatrics Department, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt

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tahasayed998@gmail.com

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Volume

30

Article Issue

9

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51783

Issue Date

2024-12-01

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2024-01-25

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2024-12-01

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4,698

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4,703

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1110-1431

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2357-0717

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Zagazig University Medical Journal

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Postictal Assessment of Serum Copeptin Level in Children with Convulsion

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30 Dec 2024