1Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Raichur Institute of Medical Sciences, Raichur
2Professor and HOD, Department of Anatomy, J N Medical College, Belgaum
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Santoshkumar Mulage, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Raichur Institute of Medical Sciences, Raichur, Karnataka State, India. Email: drsantu77@gmail.com, Contact No: 09449302888
Online published on 13 January, 2015.
Epilepsy is a group of disorders in which there are recurrent episodes of altered cerebral function associated with paroxysmal excessive hyper synchronous discharge of cerebral neurons. The objectives of the present study were to find out various dermatoglyphic features in patients suffering from epilepsy and to compare the dermatoglyphic features in normal and epileptic patients.
The present cross sectional study was conducted during the period from January 2007 to December 2007 on age and sex matched 70 epileptic patients and 70 normal individuals. Patients were selected from that attending outpatient department of Neuro medicine, KLES Dr. Prabhakar Kore Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Belgaum aged between 5 and 40 years. Among the various methods was used for recording dermatoglyphics, most routinely used ink method was used for this study. The finger and palm prints were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively.
Significant findings in qualitative analyses of male epileptic patients showed increase in frequency of radial loops and decrease in frequency of whorls. Significant findings in quantitative analysis of epileptic patients included increase of total finger ridge count in male and female epileptics.
Thus with the help of these parameters, one can conclude that, there is some genetic basis for epilepsy and it is possible to a certain extent to predict from dermatoglphic studies, individual's tendency for acquiring epilepsy.
Epilepsy, Deramtoglyphics, Finger print pattern, Total finger ridge count, Triradii
