Attention Deficit Disorder in the Neuropediatric Outpatient Clinic. Our Current Experience with Children Over Seven and a Half Years Old

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Javier López Pisón Itziar Serrano-Viñuales Leyre Troyas-Fernández de Garayalde Laura Cuadrado-Piqueras Ainhoa Jiménez-Olmos Silvia Sánchez-Marco

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Javier López Pisón
Neuropediatrics Section, Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain

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Introduction: Attention deficit disorder, with or without hyperactivity (ADD/ADHD) can appear either alone or associated with diverse cerebral conditions, which may be hereditary or acquired. We review our experience of ADD/ADHD in children over seven and a half years old. Methods: ADD/ADHD in children born before 1-1-2010, seen at the neuropediatric clinic between 31-12- 15 and 19-6-17, is examined globally, by reasons for consultation and by diagnosis. Results: 41% of the 2,541 children over 7½ years seen at the clinic had ADD/ADHD: 530 cases of ADD/ADHD alone and 513 associated with other conditions. In 15.6% of the cases of ADD/ADHD the reason for consultation was headaches and in 43%, psychomotor delay. ADD/ADHD accompanied 65% of the cases of Asperger’s syndrome, 40% of intellectual disability and 23% of the cases of autistic spectrum disorder, 87.5 % of the cases of fragile X syndrome, 48.4% of chromosomopathies, 22% of genopathies, 19% of the cases of cerebral palsy, 50% of Duchenne, 53% of epilepsies, 67% of tics/Tourette, 51% of neurofibromatosis 1, 29 % of tuberous sclerosis and 74% of eastern European adopted children have ADD/ADHD. Discussion: The importance of neurodevelopmental disorders and ADD/ADHD in neuropediatric practice is revealed.

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Research Article

Publication history

Received: Wed 01, Jul 2020
Accepted: Mon 27, Jul 2020
Published: Fri 21, Aug 2020

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© 2023 Javier López Pisón. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.PDR.2020.02.01