Poor Seizure Control Among Children Attending a Tertiary 8 Hospital in South Western Uganda – A Retrospective Study [Response to Letter]

Abstract

The authors thank Selvi A. Mangundap for the keen interest in our study. The author notes that data obtained using medical records, it is difficult for researchers to determine matters related to the seizure onset, nature, and duration of the seizure when the patient comes to the hospital. Diagnosing epilepsy is difficult, particularly in LMICs like Uganda with few neurologists or other health-care professionals have the necessary expertise and time to acquire the detailed history needed for ILAE classification of epilepsies.1 Reliable and robust technologies facilitating a diagnosis would therefore be helpful. The study set out to determine the seizure control and factors associated with poor seizure control among children with confirmed epilepsy who had been attending the paediatrics epilepsy clinic at MRRH for at least 6 months. All the children attending the epilepsy clinic are reviewed by a pediatric neurologist and diagnoses various comorbidities associated with the seizures