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M A Borges1, N S De Marchi, A K Sato
1Serviço de Neurofisiologia Clínica, Faculdade de Medicina Rio Preto. maocrib@wm.com.br
Abstract:
This study aims to evaluate, prospectively, the epileptic syndromes and seizures types upon work based on a sample of 412 out-patients from Hospital de Base, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil. It was observed that the epileptic syndromes were significant in relation to the patients' labor skills (p= 0.001): the idiopathic syndromes showed less prejudiced, while the symptomatic was more. The seizures types also had some influence in relation to the patients' labor skills (p=0.016): the generalized non-convulsive seizures had no involvement; the simple partial and the non-classified had moderately involvement; and the simple partial seizures evolving to complex and tonic-clonic generalized were the seizures which mostly have taken the patients away from work. The seizure severity was also analyzed.
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