Idiopathic first seizure in adult life: who should be treated?

CA Van Donselaar, AT Geerts, RJ Schimsheimer - British Medical Journal, 1991 - bmj.com
OBJECTIVE--To assess the accuracy of the diagnosis, recurrence rate, and fate after the first
recurrence in adult patients with an untreated idiopathic first seizure. DESIGN--Hospital …

Remission of seizures and relapse in patients with epilepsy

JF Annegers, WA Hauser, LR Elveback - Epilepsia, 1979 - Wiley Online Library
In a longitudinal study of patients with epilepsy in Rochester, Minnesota, we found that the
probability of being in remission (at least 5 consecutive years seizure‐free, and continuing) …

Prognostic factors for childhood and juvenile absence epilepsies

F Bartolomei, J Roger, M Bureau, P Genton… - European …, 1997 - karger.com
To assess prognostic factors for absence epilepsy (AE), we analyzed data from 80 patients
treated for childhood AE (CAE; n= 53) or juvenile AE (JAE; n= 27) in our epilepsy clinic …

Mind the gap: multiple events and lengthy delays before presentation with a “first seizure”

AL Firkin, DJT Marco, S Saya, MR Newton… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Up to half of patients assessed for suspected new‐onset epileptic seizures report
previous undiagnosed events. This suggests that delay to timely and expert assessment is a …

Expanding the international classification of seizures to provide localization information

HO Lüders, R Burgess, S Noachtar - Neurology, 1993 - AAN Enterprises
In 1981, the International League Against Epilepsy took a bold step by introducing a greatly
simplified seizure classification, which subsequently became the universally accepted …

The misdiagnosis of epilepsy and the management of refractory epilepsy in a specialist clinic

D Smith, BA Defalla, DW Chadwick - Qjm, 1999 - academic.oup.com
We assessed the frequency, causes and consequences of erroneous diagnosis of epilepsy,
and the outcome of patients referred withrefractory epilepsy', by retrospective analysis of the …

Absence epilepsies

P Loiseau, B Duché, JM Pédespan - Epilepsia, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
Individuals fulfilling diagnostic criteria for childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) and juvenile
absence epilepsy (JAE) were selected from a large group of patients who were born …

[图书][B] Des accès incomplets d'épilepsie

T Herpin - 1867 - books.google.com
Le livre que nous présentons à l'appréciation médicale est dû à l'un des praticiens les plus
éminents et les plus consciencieux de notre époque. Modèle de l'observateur clinicien et …