title: [A course of idiopathic generalized epilepsy in adult and elderly patients].
abstract: Thirty-six patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) aged 35-67 years (mean age 44.4 +/- 10.6 years, 14 male, 22 female) have been studied. Ten of them were over 50 years, 8 had a diagnosis of juvenile absence epilepsy (JAE); 12--juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) and 16--awakening epilepsy (AE), IGE with isolated generalized tonic-clonic seizures. The control group included 80 patients with IGE (22 male, 58 female aged 15-34 years, mean age 20.5 +/- 4.3 years), 29 of them being affected with JAE, 28--JME, 23--AE. Elderly patients with IGE experienced difficulties in the control over absences, myoclonic seizures and generalized seizures. In this group, the seizures-free cases were rare. The results suggest worse clinical prognosis of IGE for elderly patients as compared with young ones.
authors.forename: N Iu
authors.initials: NIu
authors.lastname: Perunova
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis; D004832:Epilepsy, Absence / Q000175:diagnosis; D004829:Epilepsy, Generalized / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020190:Myoclonic Epilepsy, Juvenile / Q000175:diagnosis; D011379:Prognosis; D013997:Time Factors