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MICHAEL A. POLLACK, MD
Division of Pediatric Neurology Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center 111 E 210th St Bronx, NY 10467

Am J Dis Child. 1979;133(2):222.

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In Reply.—Livingston and his colleagues indicate several areas of disagreement with my views on febrile convulsions. Some of their arguments can only be explained by failure to read my article carefully.

I did not state that febrile convulsions cause epilepsy or suggest that treatment of febrile convulsions precludes the development of epilepsy in later years. In fact, I concluded that existing studies of temporal lobe epilepsy following febrile seizures do not bear directly on the treatment of children with brief, generalized febrile convulsions. I also did not conclude that brief, generalized febrile convulsions reflect a predisposition to febrile status epilepticus. In discussing the study of Aicardi and Chevrie,¹ which is also cited by Livingston and his colleagues, I wrote that the authors did not indicate whether a brief, generalized febrile convulsion increases the risk of status epilepticus during subsequent febrile illnesses. Since status epilepticus does have a high . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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