Prognosis of Childhood Epilepsy

Abstract

A cohort of 453 children, aged 1 month to 15 years, with newly diagnosed epilepsy was studied prospectively for 5 years at the Erasmus MC/Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam and three other hospitals in the Netherlands, and the data analyzed to determine the prognosis, course, and response to treatment.

Keywords

• dutch study of epilepsy in childhood
• idiopathic epilepsy
• favorable prognosis