The Cost of the Second Seizure: Rethinking the Treatment Decision.

CONCLUSION: Our model determined that immediate AED treatment is preferable to deferred treatment in adult first-seizure patients over a wide and clinically relevant range of variables. Furthermore, our analysis suggests that the 10-year seizure recurrence rate that justifies AED treatment (38.0%) is substantially lower than the 60% threshold used in the current definition of epilepsy. PMID: 30955429 [PubMed]
Source: Epilepsy Currents - Category: Neurology Tags: Epilepsy Curr Source Type: research