[Various aspects of the development and course of remissions in focal epilepsy].
On the basis of long-term follow-up observations of 309 patients with focal forms of epilepsy the author succeeded in tracing the onset and course of 145 remissions in 122 patients. In 50 of them the remissions were still continuing by the moment of the last examination. It was noted that the remissions set in more frequently in patients with an early onset of the disease and a short duration of the latter. In patients with a late onset of the epilepsy the remissions were longer. In the course of the remissions the epileptic process might develop in the direction of formation of the epileptic focus and further aggravation of the psychic disturbances: this was particularly manifest in patients with temporal epilepsy. A certain role in the development of the remissions belongs to a number of factors, among which pneumoencephalography combined with intensive medicinal therapy is of a particular importance. While evaluating the completeness of the remission and possibility of recovery one should take into account (in addition to other factors) also the etiology of the disease. During long-term remissions many patients should be given courses of etiopathogenic treatment, such as dehydration, antiinflammatory and resorption therapy, etc.
D000328:Adult; D000927:Anticonvulsants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000628:therapy; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000175:diagnosis; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011011:Pneumoencephalography; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D013997:Time Factors
D000927:Anticonvulsants
Nekotorye aspekty vozniknoveniia i techeniia remissiĭ pri fokal'noĭ épilepsii.