Affiliations: Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation,
University Clinical Centre of Kosova, Prishtina, Kosova
Note: [] Correspondence: Iliriana Boshnjaku-Dallku, M.D., Department of
Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, University Clinical Center of Kosova,
Prishtina, Kosova. Tel.: +377 44 200 247; Fax: +381 38 512 231; E-mail:
idallku@yahoo.com
Abstract: Cerebral palsy (CP) is often associated with epilepsy. We sought to
determine the frequency with which epilepsy is associated with CP and to define
the relationship in terms of gender, etiology, pathophysiology, and
topographical parameters. This was a retrospective analysis of children with CP
treated at the University Clinical Centre of Kosova (UCCK) in Prishtina, over a
5-year period, 2000–2005. A total of 154 children (aged 7–15 years) with CP,
treated at the UCCK were enrolled. CP was associated with epilepsy in 63 cases
(40.9%), 29 (46.0%) of which had spastic quadriparetic CP; 17 (27.0%),
diplegic CP; and 15 (23.8%), hemiparetic CP. For the quadriparetic children,
there was no significant difference in the number associated with epilepsy
between the genders (female, 45.2%; male, 46.9%). Epilepsy was frequently
associated with CP, with the spastic quadriparetic group being most affected.
There was no large difference in the number associated with epilepsy between
the right and left hemiparetic CP cases. Tonic-clonic epilepsy was more
frequently associated with hemiparetic CP, whereas partial-type epilepsy was
more often associated with quadriparetic CP.
