Prognosis
Prognosis varies greatly depending on epilepsy syndrome, and can also vary for different patients with the same syndrome. Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE), juvenile absence epilepsy (JAE), and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) tend to be quite responsive to drug treatment. Although seizures remit by adulthood in the majority of patients with CAE, JME and JAE are likely to require lifelong treatment.
It has been suggested that early diagnosis and treatment may improve prognosis in paediatric patients with absence seizures.[64]
Epilepsy syndromes with atypical absence seizures, such as Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and epilepsy with myoclonic absences, are medically refractory and associated with severe intellectual disability.
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