Disciplina de Neurologia Experimental, Universidade Federal de S?o Paulo/Escola Paulista de Medicina, S?o Paulo, SP, Brazil. scorza.nexp@epm.br
Abstract:
Epilepsy is the most common acquired chronic neurological disorder; each year about 1 in a 1000 patients with chronic epilepsy die suddenly, unexpectedly, and without explanation, even with postmortem examination (SUDEP). Seizure incidence is approximately 10% in patients with chronic renal failure and hemodialysis-associated seizure has been considered to be a common complication of people on hemodialysis treatment. Considering this, we evaluated the incidence of seizures in 189 patients under dialytic treatment.