Guidelines for discontinuation of antiepileptic drugs for childhood absence epilepsy and rolandic epilepsy.

Abstract

It is generally considered that most patients with childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) and rolandic epilepsy (RE) have outgrown epilepsy by the age of 20. However, there are a few reports about a rational approach to the treatment of these epilepsies. We studied 56 patients with CAE and 60 patients with RE who were followed up for more than five years and were over 14 years of age at the last visit to make some guidelines when to discontinue antiepileptic drugs (AEDs).