[Febrile convulsions: diagnosis, treatment and ambulatory follow-up]

The authors review the current aspects of the etiology and pathogenesis of febrile seizures, hereditary predisposition to the given state. Give a detailed description of the problems of the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of febrile seizures, their outcomes, possibilities of transformation to epilepsy. Special attention is paid to different approaches to the drug treatment of children suffering from febrile seizures as well as to the problems of the children's follow-up.