['Wait and see' in paediatric epilepsy. Our experience].

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Pharmacological treatment of epilepsy is not healing; it tries to avoid seizures, as far as possible, in children who probably would still have them.

Patients and methods

Our purpose is to analyse our experience with epileptic children and those who have a first non-symptomatic seizure without pharmacological treatment. Patients seen in a paediatric neurology consultation, from 2017 to 2021, who had suffered one or more acute non-symptomatic crises and who had not been treated pharmacologically, were analysed.

Results

Sixty-five patients meet the selection criteria. Twenty-four patients had had a single crisis with a mean duration of 12 minutes (1-60). In 66.7% it was nocturnal. 41.7% presented pathological electroencephalogram, and 21% pathological findi

SUBMITTER: Salinas-Salvador B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10364043 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature