DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2017.v05i11.063

Pages: 4635-4638

A hospital based study of neurological disorders prevalent in children admitted to a tertiary care hospital. A total of 414 cases were studied and classified according to ICD-NA (1997) from G00-G99 after diagnosis was established using routine investigations and others available and as required. It was found that peak incidence occurs below 3 years predominantly in males. Most common neurological disorder being inflammatory disease (57%) under which most commonly pyogenic meningitis and encephalitis (80%). Most common seizure type here being Generalised Tonic clonic Seizure (72%) overall. Most common cause of death being Encephalitis (40%) with half of the cases diagnosed as encephalitis or TBM presenting with some form of epilepsy.