Seizure outcome in 175 patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy – A long-term observational study

Highlights • Not all patients with Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) need a lifelong treatment. • A substantial proportion of patients remain seizure-free with and some even without AED. • All three seizure types within 1st year of JME are predictive of poor seizure outcome.

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Veröffentlicht in:	Epilepsy research 2014-12, Vol.108 (10), p.1817-1824
Hauptverfasser:	Höfler, Julia, Unterberger, Iris, Dobesberger, Judith, Kuchukhidze, Giorgi, Walser, Gerald, Trinka, Eugen
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Age of Onset Aged Aged, 80 and over Anticonvulsants - therapeutic use Biological and medical sciences Child Child, Preschool Cross-Sectional Studies Female Follow-Up Studies Generalized epilepsy Headache. Facial pains. Syncopes. Epilepsia. Intracranial hypertension. Brain oedema. Cerebral palsy Humans Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Myoclonic Epilepsy, Juvenile - drug therapy Myoclonic Epilepsy, Juvenile - physiopathology Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes) Neurology Prognosis Recurrence Retrospective Studies Seizure-freedom Seizures - drug therapy Seizures - physiopathology Young Adult
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Zusammenfassung:	Highlights • Not all patients with Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) need a lifelong treatment. • A substantial proportion of patients remain seizure-free with and some even without AED. • All three seizure types within 1st year of JME are predictive of poor seizure outcome.
ISSN:	0920-1211 1872-6844 1872-6844
DOI:	10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2014.09.008