Migraine-epilepsy syndromes : sub-types of epileptic seizures in 205 migrainous patients in Birjand, Iran

Abstract EN

We evaluated 205 patients with diagnosis of migraine headache based on the criteria developed by the international headache society (HIS).

14 patients (6.8 %) developed epileptic seizures (ES).

In this group, sex ratio, type of migraine headache and epileptic seizures, electroencephalograms, and temporal relation between seizures and migraine episodes were investigated.

Male to female ratio was higher inpatients with seizures than those with migraine headaches alone.

Migraine with typical aura was observed in 85.7 % of the 14 patients with migraine and seizures.

In this sub-group of the migraine and seizures.

In this sub-group of the patients.

78.5 % suffered generalized tonic clonic convulsions and 21.5 % had partial seizures.

Of the 14 patients, in 21.4 % patients’ seizures and migraine episodes occurred simultaneously.