JPSIM Journal of Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine J Pak Soc Intern Med 2709-8729 2710-0804 Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine 10.70302/jpsim.v5i4.2468 jpsim.v5i4.2468 Original Research To Determine the Frequency of Seizures in Patients Presented with Acute Stroke in Mayo Hospital, Lahore Sulehria Sohail Bashir dr_sbsulehria@yahoo.com * Anjum Sohail Ather Ch Adnan Ahmed Haider Muhammad Zulqarnain Zahra Sania Haider Muhammad Zil Hasnain Amna Inayat Medical College Lahore Fatima Jinnah Medical University Lahore *Correspondence: Sohail Bashir Sulehria (dr_sbsulehria@yahoo.com) 09 12 2024 2024 5 4 703 706 23 06 2024 02 11 2024 Copyright © 2024 The Author(s) 2024 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective

To determine the frequency of seizures in patients presenting with acute stroke in Mayo Hospital, Lahore.

 Methodology

This descriptive case series study was conducted in Medicine Department, Mayo Hospital, Lahore from June

10, 2020 to December 09, 2020. Total 215 cases with acute stroke were enrolled from the Medical Department of Mayo

Hospital, Lahore. Detailed history and physical examination were done by the researcher to ensure unbiased approach.

Study was done as per Helsinki declaration. The patients were followed for 14 days after stroke. The frequency of seizures

(according to operational definition) in patients with acute stroke within the first 14 days was noted. Data was scrutinized

in SPSS v25.0. Stratification for age, gender and type of stroke was done. Chi-square test was applied after stratification

and p-value ≤0.05 was taken as significant.

 Results

Total 215 patients presenting with acute stroke were enrolled in this study. There were 134(62.3%) males and

81(37.7%) females. Mean age of subjects was 55.9±15.4 years. Overall frequency of seizures in patients with acute stroke

was 40(18.6%).

 Conclusion

Seizures are not uncommon after developing an acute stroke, hence very early referral of all such cases to

tertiary care hospitals must be encouraged. Quick management of acute stroke may subsequently decrease prevalence of

developing seizures resulting in a better outcome.

 Keywords Seizures Ischemic Stroke Hemorrhagic Stroke Ethics Statement

Ethics committee: Research and Evaluation Unit, College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan. Approval number: CPSP/REU/MED-2016-12151, dated 01-06-2020.

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