Long-term prognosis of early epilepsy in juvenile head-injured patients (preliminary results).
The authors present the results of a long-term follow up of 52 juvenile head-injured patients who showed early epileptic seizures. The purpose of this study is to stress the role of long-term prognosis in the early seizures and to determine in which cases a treatment preventing late seizures is eligible. They consider long-term prognosis as to be favourable. Late epilepsy occurred in 15.3% of the cases and responded favourably to anticonvulsive therapy. They suggest prophylaptic treatment in those patients who had loss of consciousness immediately after trauma, recurring seizures, coma and/or surgery.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000927:Anticonvulsants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003128:Coma / Q000209:etiology; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D004834:Epilepsy, Post-Traumatic / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011379:Prognosis; D012008:Recurrence
D000927:Anticonvulsants