Etiology of epilepsies: Latin American multicenter retrospective study

Epilepsy, one of the most frequent neurological diseases worldwide, affects about 70 million people of all ages, most of them in underdeveloped countries. The objective is to establish the etiology of epilepsies, as well as the risk factors for recurrence of crisis, in patients with epilepsy, diagnosed by a neurologist, for which a retrospective, multicenter, cohort study will be carried out, in a representative sample of patients from six Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico and Uruguay) Of neurology, of 11 hospitals in the mentioned countries, according to criteria for inclusion and exclusion, and the respective procedures and diagnostic criteria previously defined. This study is the continuation of the "Prospective Multicentral Latin American Prospective Study of first epileptic crisis", sponsored and approved by the University of Cuenca, carried out by the same team of researchers "Latin American Group of Epilepsy Research", during the last two years, whose results have already been published in an international indexed magazine. The information collected in the participating hospitals will be admitted to the REDCAP database (whose server is from the University of Cuenca). This tool was already used very successfully in the previous study mentioned and currently the researchers and the technical team of the University of Cuenca have a great experience in their expedited management for the statistical analysis, a comparison of demographic and clinical data between groups will be made between groups using Student/test T tests of Mann Whitney for continuous variables and chi-square tests for categorical variables, respectively. A value of P = 0.05 will be considered statistically significant.

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