Clinical course and seizure outcome of idiopathic childhood epilepsy: determinants of early and long-term prognosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Idiopathic epilepsies and epileptic syndromes predominate childhood and adolescence epilepsy. The aim of the present study was to investigate the clinical course and outcome of idiopathic childhood epilepsy and identify variables determining both early and long-term prognosis.

Methods

We followed 303 children with newly diagnosed idiopathic epilepsy aged 1-14 years old, both prospectively and retrospectively. Outcome was defined at one, 2 and 4 years of follow-up, as well as at the end of the study period for all patients. Based on the data collected, patients were classified in four patterns of clinical course: "excellent", "improving", "relapsing" and "poor". Variables defined at intake and after the initial year of treatment were analyzed for their prognostic r

SUBMITTER: Dragoumi P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3878358 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature