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FERTILITY IN ADOLESCENTS WITH EPILEPSY
Branka Mučić-Pucić
; Clinic for Pediatrics, Clinical hospital center Zagreb, Croatia
Ingrid Škarpa-Prpić
; Clinic for neurology, Clinical hospital center Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Progress in neuropediatrics, especially in pediatric epilepsy
is advancing on a broad front, from new understandings
of pathogenetic mechanisms to novel pharmacologic,
surgical and nonsurgical various treatments.Because most
epilepsy patients have epilepsy from childhood, these
developments are relevant to both pediatric and adult
neurologists.
Even healthy adolescents have specific problems with
adopting helathy life habits and life –styles (obesity, mental
health, traffic traumas, suicide attempts, abuse of recreational
drugs and alcohol which later result in asocial
behaviour, and especially teenager pregnancies which are
in constant uprise, together with sexually transmitted diseases.
The burden of chronic illness in adolescence is increasing
in all developed countries, because all chronically ill
patients live through their teens until their twenties. This
is the time in their lives when young people at the same
time have to make serious decisions- the choice of
employment, relationships within the family and friends,
issue of sexuality, contaception and the ever present question
– whether to discontinue the antiepileptic therapy or
not.
Recent attention has focused on the importance, but
inadequacy, of adolescent medicine and the paucity od
medical services for this specific population.Adolescence
is in itself, a difficult and traumatic time, when complicated
by epilepsy it poses a great challenge not only to the
young people themselves, but also to their carers and
physicians.
Keywords
adolescency; epilepsy; reproduction
Hrčak ID:
23481
URI
Publication date:
20.12.2007.
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