EPILEPTIC SEIZURES IN INTRACEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE - A CLINICAL AND PROGNOSTIC STUDY OF 55 CASES

Fifty-five cases of epileptic seizures associated with spontaneous int racerebral hemorrhage are reported. Seizures appeared as the first sym ptom in 23 patients, early (within two weeks after HI) in 18 and late (later than 2 weeks after HI) in 14. From the analysis of the observed cases we noticed that: 1) partial seizures were most frequent type (6 3%). These appeared mainly in cases with lobar hemorrhage above all; 2 ) development chronic epilepsy occurred frequently in the case of pati ents affected by late seizures. We compare our data with those reporte d in literature in order to highlight main factors which affect the on set and development of seizures associated with spontaneous intracereb ral haemorrhage.