[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: N Iu Perunova
• Journal: Zhurnal nevrologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova (Zh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova) Vol. 105 Issue 3 Pg. 4-6 ( 2005) ISSN: 1997-7298 [Print] Russia (Federation)
• PMID: 15825224 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, English Abstract, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Age Factors
• Aged
• Epilepsy (diagnosis)
• Epilepsy, Absence (diagnosis)
• Epilepsy, Generalized (diagnosis)
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Myoclonic Epilepsy, Juvenile (diagnosis)
• Prognosis
• Time Factors