Treatment Duration for Absence Epilepsy

Abstract

The effects of 6 months of treatment followed by a 5- to 6-week withdrawal period of ethosuximide (ESM) in 3 children, ages 5, 10, and 10 years, with new onset absence epilepsy are reported from the Departments of Neurology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the Division of Child Neurology, Schneider Children’s Hospital and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York.

Keywords

• ethosuximide
• spike-wave bursts
• electrographic seizure activity