Prognostic Significance of Failure of the Initial Antiepileptic Drug in Children with Absence Epilepsy

Summary:  Purpose: In children with childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) and juvenile absence epilepsy (JAE), to determine the impact of failure of initial antiepileptic drug (AED) for lack of efficacy in eventual seizure control and long‐term remission of epilepsy.

[1]  C. Camfield,et al.  If a first antiepileptic drug fails to control a child's epilepsy, what are the chances of success with the next drug? , 1997, The Journal of pediatrics.

[2]  C. Chi,et al.  Childhood absence epilepsy. , 1994, Zhonghua yi xue za zhi = Chinese medical journal; Free China ed.

[3]  P. Kwan,et al.  Early identification of refractory epilepsy. , 2000, The New England journal of medicine.

[4]  A. Covanis,et al.  Absence epilepsy: early prognostic signs , 1992, Seizure.