Exploring the Frequency and Etiology of Epilepsy among Sudanese AIDS patients

Abstract

The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence of epilepsy among Sudanese AIDS patients and to study the 
underlying causes and types of epilepsy. About 700 AIDS patients where included in this cross sectional hospital based 
study. Almost 5.71% of the patients had epilepsy and 50% of them had generalized convulsion. Encephalitis was found 
to be the commonest cause of epilepsy followed by meningitis, brain abscess, CNS lymphoma and toxoplasmosis. The 
EEGs showed abnormal discharge in 28 patients (70%). AIDS is a great mimicker. It can be present in almost any 
neurological manifestation. Epilepsy is not an uncommon neurological manifestation associated with AIDS.