Clinical features and prognosis of epilepsy in the elderly in western China

Highlights • Status epilepticus was prevalent in patients with seizure onset after 65 years. • Structural epilepsy was prevalent in elderly epilepsies. • Ischemic stroke was the leading cause in elderly epilepsies. • 80.5% of all patients achieved significant seizure reduction at two-year follow-up....

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Published in:Seizure (London, England) England), 2016-05, Vol.38, p.26-31
Main Authors: Huang, Cheng, MD, Feng, Ling, MD, Li, Yao-hua, MD, Wang, Ying, MD, Chi, Xiao-sa, MD, Wang, Wei, MD, Hao, Nan-ya, MD, Zhou, Dong, MD, Chen, Lei, MD
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Language:English
Subjects:
Aftercare
Age of Onset
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Anticonvulsants - therapeutic use
Brain Ischemia - complications
China - epidemiology
Cohort study
Elderly
Epilepsy
Epilepsy - drug therapy
Epilepsy - epidemiology
Epilepsy - etiology
Female
Humans
Male
Neurology
Prognosis
Semiology
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Summary:Highlights • Status epilepticus was prevalent in patients with seizure onset after 65 years. • Structural epilepsy was prevalent in elderly epilepsies. • Ischemic stroke was the leading cause in elderly epilepsies. • 80.5% of all patients achieved significant seizure reduction at two-year follow-up. • Late-onset epilepsy and AEDs treatment were associated with better seizure outcome.
ISSN:1059-1311
1532-2688
DOI:10.1016/j.seizure.2016.03.011