The etiology analysis of 665 hospitalized patients with epilepsy in Southern Sichuan

Abstract

Objective To investigate the distribution of the general etiology of hospitalized patients with epilepsy in Southwest China and the etiological distribution of epilepsy patients of different ages. Methods The complete medical records of hospitalized patients with epilepsy diagnosed in our hospital from August 2014 to July 2017 were collected, the overall cause of the disease was classified, and the etiology distribution of different age groups was analyzed. Results A total of 665 eligible patients were enrolled. The overall etiology of epilepsy was structural (398/665, 59.8%), infectious (122/665, 18.3%) and metabolic (12/665, 1.8%). The etiological and genetic causes were rare. Childhood and adolescent epilepsies were mainly due to unknown, viral infection, intracranial vascular malformations and cortical development disorders. As for etiology in adults, traumatic brain injury accounted for 18.0% (68/380), cerebral hemorrhage accounted for 18.7% (71/380), and brain tumors accounted for 17.1% (65/380). Elderly patients with epilepsy accounted for 59.6% (106/178) of stroke and other cerebrovascular diseases, followed by traumatic brain injury (17/178, 9.6%) and neoplastic disease (17/178, 9.6%). Conclusions The etiology of hospitalized epilepsy patients in Southern Sichuan is mainly structural lesions. And cerebrovascular disease, intracranial infection, brain trauma and tumor are the most common etiologies, but there are different etiologies at different ages. Key words: Epilepsy; Epilepsy, post-traumatic; Inpatients