title: Identifying and treating clinical subgroups of patients with epilepsy: a case review.
abstract: This article uses case reviews to illustrate key clinical features of several important epilepsy subgroups: newly diagnosed patients with epilepsy, women of childbearing age with seizures, elderly patients who develop epilepsy, patients with developmental disabilities, and patients with medication-resistant epilepsy. Characteristic clinical features for these patients (seizure types, ages of seizure onset, and treatment responses) guide clinical evaluation, treatment selections, and monitoring for medication side effects and seizures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. gkrauss@jhmi.edu
authors.forename: Gregory L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Krauss
authors.forename: Eva K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Ritzl
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male