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Factors Associated With Poor Control in Partial Complex Epilepsy

Department of Medicine, Section of Pediatrics, University of Chieti, Chieti, Italy

Giuseppe Latini, MD

Department of Pediatrics, Ospedale "Di Summa", Brindisi, Italy

Raffaella Giannuzzi, MD

Department of Pediatrics, Ospedale "Di Summa", Brindisi, Italy

Rocco Cutarella, MD

Department of Neurology, S. Valentino Hospital, Brindisi, Italy

Daniela Trotta, MD

Guido Morgese, MD

Department of Pediatrics, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Francesco Chiarelli, MD

Department of Medicine, Section of Pediatrics, University of Chieti, Chieti, Italy

To evaluate the predictive factors of response to anticonvulsant therapy in children with complex partial epilepsy, we studied prospectively 74 children and adolescents suffering from this type of epilepsy. All children were prospectively followed for at least 2 years after the beginning of anticonvulsant therapy. At the end of follow-up, the children were subdivided into two groups according to the frequency of seizures: group A, children who were seizure free in the last year, and group B, children with at least six seizures in the previous year. Children with a poor response to anticonvulsant therapy had a more frequent personal history of neonatal seizures, an interval of less than 6 months between the first and the second seizures, and persistent abnormal electroencephalograms than the seizure-free patients and were often treated with poly-therapy. (J Child Neurol 2004;19:262-264).

Journal of Child Neurology, Vol. 19, No. 4, 262-264 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/088307380401900404


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