Mohamed Inaam Noureldyme, Elseed Maha Abdelmoneum, Hamed Ahlam Abdalrhman
University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.
Child Neurol Open. 2016 Apr 4;3:2329048X15623548. doi: 10.1177/2329048X15623548. eCollection 2016 Jan-Dec.
There is no available data from Sudan reflecting the magnitude of the neurological disorders and disabilities in the pediatric age-group. This study aims to evaluate the pattern of neurological disorders among Sudanese children.
This is a retrospective survey of children with epilepsy and other neurodisability disorders seen at pediatric neurology outpatient clinic, during the period from January 2007 to August 2013. The data of 9600 patients were analyzed.
A total of 6019 patients were included in the study. The majority of the patients had epilepsy that amounted to 52.8%, followed by cerebral palsy (19.1%), congenital anomalies of the central nervous system (6.2%), neuromuscular disorders (3.2%), stroke (2.4%), ataxia and movement disorders (1.9%), assumed genetic syndromes (1.2%), and others.
Neurological disorders constitute a major cause of chronic morbidity in pediatric age-group.
苏丹没有关于儿童年龄组神经疾病和残疾程度的可用数据。本研究旨在评估苏丹儿童神经疾病的模式。
这是一项对2007年1月至2013年8月期间在儿科神经科门诊就诊的癫痫和其他神经残疾疾病患儿的回顾性调查。分析了9600名患者的数据。
共有6019名患者纳入研究。大多数患者患有癫痫,占52.8%,其次是脑瘫(19.1%)、中枢神经系统先天性异常(6.2%)、神经肌肉疾病(3.2%)、中风(2.4%)、共济失调和运动障碍(1.9%)、假定的遗传综合征(1.2%)等。
神经疾病是儿童年龄组慢性发病的主要原因。