Table 2 Remission, intractability and course of epilepsy during follow-up for each idiopathic epilepsy type and syndrome (ILAE)
Remission | No remission | “Excellent” course | “Improving” course | “Relapsing” course | “Poor” course | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | |
Benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes | 107 | 107 (100,0) | 0 | 61 (57,0) | 22 (20,5) | 24 (22,5) | 0 |
Early onset benign occipital epilepsy (Panayiotopoulos type) | 5 | 5 (100,0) | 0 | 2 (40,0) | 3 (60,0) | 0 | 0 |
Late onset occipital epilepsy (Gastaut type) | 2 | 2 (100,0) | 0 | 1 (50,0) | 0 | 1 (50,0) | 0 |
Benign epilepsy of infancy | 2 | 2 (100,0) | 0 | 1 (50,0) | 1 (50,0) | 0 | 0 |
Myoclonic epilepsy in infancy | 3 | 3 (100,0) | 0 | 1 (33,3) | 1 (33,3) | 1 (33,3) | 0 |
Childhood absence epilepsy | 80 | 70 (98,7) | 1 (1,3) | 53 (66,2) | 15 (18,8) | 11 (13,7) | 1 (1,3) |
Juvenile absence epilepsy | 5 | 5 (100,0) | 0 | 4 (80,0) | 0 | 1 (20,0) | 0 |
Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy | 5 | 4 (80,0) | 1 (20,0) | 1 (20,0) | 0 | 4 (80,0) | 0 |
Epilepsy with GTCS only | 16 | 16 (100,0) | 0 | 9 (56,3) | 3 (18,7) | 4 (25,0) | 0 |
Generalized epilepsies with febrile seizures + | 9 | 9 (100,0) | 0 | 5 (55,6) | 0 | 4 (44,4) | 0 |
Epilepsy with myoclonic-astatic seizures | 8 | 7 (87,5) | 1 (12,5) | 0 | 6 (75,0) | 1 (12,5) | 1 (12,5) |
Epilepsy with myoclonic absences | 5 | 5 (100,0) | 0 | 0 | 2 (40,0) | 3 (60,0) | 0 |
Idiopathic partial epilepsy | 31 | 26 (83,8) | 5 (16,2) | 11 (35,5) | 11 (35,5) | 5 (16,1) | 4 (12,9) |
Idiopathic generalized epilepsy | 14 | 13 (92,8) | 1 (7,2) | 9 (64,3) | 3 (21,4) | 2 (14,2) | 0 |
Photosensitive-reflex epilepsy | 8 | 7 (87,5) | 1 (12,5) | 3 (37,5) | 1 (12,5) | 4 (50,0) | 0 |
Idiopathic unclassified | 3 | 2 (66,7) | 1 (33,3) | 0 | 1 (33,3) | 2 (66,7) | 0 |
Total | 303 | 292 (96,3) | 11 (3,7) | 161 (53,1) | 69 (22,8) | 67 (22,1) | 6 (2,0) |