Identifying and treating clinical subgroups of patients with epilepsy: a case review

Med Clin North Am. 2003 May;87(3):725-46, viii. doi: 10.1016/s0025-7125(03)00010-5.

Abstract

This article uses case reviews to illustrate key clinical features of several important epilepsy subgroups: newly diagnosed patients with epilepsy, women of childbearing age with seizures, elderly patients who develop epilepsy, patients with developmental disabilities, and patients with medication-resistant epilepsy. Characteristic clinical features for these patients (seizure types, ages of seizure onset, and treatment responses) guide clinical evaluation, treatment selections, and monitoring for medication side effects and seizures.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Epilepsy / diagnosis*
  • Epilepsy / therapy
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male