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F Marossero

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Long-term prognosis of early epilepsy in juvenile head-injured patients (preliminary results).

The authors present the results of a long-term follow up of 52 juvenile head-injured patients who showed early epileptic seizures. The purpose of this study is to stress the role of long-term prognosis in the early seizures and to determine in which cases a treatment preventing late seizures is eligible. They consider long-term prognosis as to be favourable. Late epilepsy occurred in 15.3% of the cases and responded favourably to anticonvulsive therapy. They suggest prophylaptic treatment in those patients who had loss of consciousness immediately after trauma, recurring seizures, coma and/or surgery.

Adolescent↗
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Indications of anticonvulsant plasma levels monitoring in medical and surgical treatment of epilepsy.

The results of long-term (19-21 months) intensive anticonvulsant plasma levels monitoring in two patients with partial complex epilepsy resistant to therapy are reported. In the first case the qualitative and quantitative therapeutic adjustment based on the monitoring data caused the disappearance of the seizures. In the second case, in which a right mid-temporal calcification (abscess) was demonstrated by CT-scan, the attacks were not controlled by different drugs. The patient became seizure-free after a right temporal lobectomy. The importance of long-term anticonvulsant plasma levels monitoring in partial complex epilepsies unresponsive to pharmacological therapy is discussed in detail in view of possible surgical treatment.

Adolescent↗