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Última revisão: 16 Mar 2025
Última atualização: 19 Jul 2022

Resumo

Definição

História e exame físico

Principais fatores diagnósticos

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • doença febril
  • convulsão

Fatores de risco

  • elevação da temperatura
  • idade jovem
  • sexo masculino
  • história familiar de convulsões febris
  • infecção bacteriana ou viral fora do sistema nervoso central
  • vacinações
  • exposição pré-natal à nicotina
  • deficiência de ferro
  • complicações na gestação, no trabalho de parto e no parto

Investigações diagnósticas

Investigações a serem consideradas

  • punção lombar
  • estudos virais
  • hemocultura
  • eletroencefalograma (EEG)
  • ressonância nuclear magnética (RNM) cranioencefálica
  • sódio sérico
  • Hemograma completo
  • glicemia sanguínea capilar
  • glicose sérica
  • perfil de ferro

Algoritmo de tratamento

Colaboradores

Autores

Damian Roland, BMedSci, MBBS, FRCPCH, PhD

Honorary Associate Professor and Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Paediatric Emergency Medicine Leicester Academic (PEMLA) Group

Children’s Emergency Department

Leicester Royal Infirmary

Leicester

UK

Declarações

DR declares that he is a previous member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Feverish Illness in Children Guideline Group.

Agradecimentos

Dr Damian Roland would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Leena Mewasingh, Dr Frances Morrison, Dr John J. Millichap and Dr J. Gordon Millichap, previous contributors to this topic. LM has received funding from drug companies (e.g., Eisai) to attend medical conferences and been invited to an educational symposium (Novartis, LivaNova). FM declares that she has no competing interests. JJM serves as an Associate Editor of Neurology and serves on the editorial board of Pediatric Neurology Briefs; volunteers on the medical advisory board of The Jack Pribaz Foundation (KCNQ2.org); received speaker honoraria from Invitae; received royalties for online monographs from Up-To-Date; served on the scientific advisory board for Mallinckrodt; is principal investigator for a clinical trial funded by UCB Pharma; and is the principal investigator for research grants from Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy and the Thrasher Research Fund. JJM is an author of a number of references cited in this topic. JGM is an author of a number of references cited in this topic.

Revisores

Robert S. Rust, Jr., MA, MD

Professor

Department of Neurology

University of Virginia Health System

Charlottesville

VA

Declarações

RSR declares that he has no competing interests.

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