title: Predictors of long-term outcome of convulsive disorders in the first year of life: clinical usefulness of five risk factors.
abstract: The clinical usefulness of 5 risk factors (delayed development before the onset of seizures, abnormal EEG, symptomatic etiology, abnormal past histories, nonbrief symmetric generalized tonic and/or clonic convulsions) used to indicate long-term prognosis was investigated in 295 children who had convulsive disorders in the first year of life. All patients were followed up to the age of 6 years or older. Patients without any of these risk factors showed mentally and physically normal development, and 89% became seizure-free. However, only 10% or less of the high-risk group with 3 or more of these factors became mentally and physically normal. The score of these 5 factors was significantly related to the long-term prognosis and was assumed to be a valuable index to prognosis in the early stages.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002657:Child Development; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011379:Prognosis; D012306:Risk; D012640:Seizures / Q000145:classification / Q000503:physiopathology*