Summary: – The overall intellectual and neurodevelopmental outcome in children with infantile spasms is generally poor – The long-term prognosis is directly related to the underlying cause of the seizures – Better developmental outcomes are noted in patients without an identified cause (cryptogenic/idiopathic) – Although the spasms tend to resolve by early to mid childhood, […]

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When epilepsy is uncontrolled, it indicates the continued occurrence of an unacceptable quantity of seizures despite reasonable treatment. The amount of seizures deemed unacceptable is dependant on the nature of the seizures, the patient’s lifestyle and the consequences of such uncontrolled seizures. So, what does uncontrolled epilepsy translate to in real life? What does uncontrolled […]