Prognosis of Epilepsy

The prognosis of epilepsy

The cardinal question for a person developing seizures is 'What is the likelihood that they will go away?' 'Prognosis' refers to the possible outcomes of a disease and the frequency at which they can be expected to occur. Prognostic factors may include demographic features, disease-specific indicators (e.g. seizure frequency, aetiology of epilepsy) or co-morbidity. Such factors do not necessari...

Early prognosis of epilepsy.

In 94 previously untreated new referrals to a neurological clinic with tonic-clonic or partial seizures or both the failure rate for optimum single-drug treatment with phenytoin or carbamazepine after a median of 32 months was 17%. Failure of single-drug treatment was associated especially with the presence of additional neuropsychiatric handicaps but also with partial or mixed seizures, sympto...

Prognosis of partial epilepsy.

The prognosis of partial epilepsy in childhood (excluding cases of benign partial epilepsy) was studied; the average follow up period was 7.4 years. Improvement rate of seizure status was 82.3%. We studied favourable prognostic factors and found that those most often associated with seizure improvement were familial convulsions and idiopathic forms, no generalised seizures before partial onset,...

Prognosis and Treatment of Epilepsy

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The Long-term Prognosis of Epilepsy