A study of the prevalence of epilepsy among Sudanese AIDS patients and the underlying causes and types of epilepsy

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 were 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