Complex febrile seizures —A systematic review

In early medical writings only the following three types of neurological disorders were recognized: seizures, paralysis, and hydrocephalus. From the time of the early Greeks, seizures were solely recognized as complications of a febrile illness. Soon after, the beginnings of the current day complicated categorization of seizures types began to occur with the distinction of a form of seizure called a febrile seizure. From the Hippocratic era of medicine, the two accepted characteristics of febrile seizures were that they occurred in childhood, with high susceptibility of a child to have febrile seizures during the first 2 –3 years of life, and that the child convulses with the accompaniment of a fever.

Source: Disease a Month - January 13, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Harry Whelan, Matthew Harmelink, Erica Chou, Delphin Sallowm, Nadir Khan, Rachit Patil, Kumar Sannagowdara, Jun Ho Kim, Wei Liang Chen, Suad Khalil, Ivana Bajic, Aliyah Keval, Donald Greydanus Source Type: research