Out come of term neonates with identified seizures

To determine neurodevelopmental outcome of term neonatal seizures in the age of 3months.Patients and 46 term neonates with clinical seizures were included during 1 year. Data collected through using history, observation and examination in the day of the admission and in 3 months of life. Then results were analyzed. From 46 term neonates 43.5% were girls and 56.5% boys. In 23% of the cases, first seizures occurred in the first day of life and overall in 84% of patients, seizures started in the first week. 63% of neonates had one type of seizures the most common type was tonic.In 39% interictal EEGs were abnormal. The etiologies were hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HLE) in 30.4% infection 19.6%, hypoglycemia 13%, other metabolic disorders in 13%, intracranial hemmorhage in 11%, cerebal dysgenesis 4%, hyperekplexia and familial neonatal seizures each of them 2% and 4% unknown. 2/3 of neonates were available in 3 months of life. 50% of them had abnormal neurodevelopment assessment. All neonates with seizures due to HIE were in this group (P=0.00).Seizures type and EEG findings don’t have significant correlation with abnormal developmental outcomes (P =0.6). Seizures type and EEG findings don’t have significant correlation with neurologic outcome in neonatal seizures, at 3 months of life, but the causes of seizures are determinative.