Absence epilepsy beyond adolescence: an outcome analysis after 45 years of follow-up.
Martin HoltkampDieter JanzAndrea KirschbaumAlexander B KowskiBernd J VorderwülbeckePublished in: Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry (2018)
These data indicate that if absence epilepsy persists beyond adolescence, long-term seizure and psychosocial outcome do not differ between childhood and juvenile onset or between pyknoleptic and non-pyknoleptic course of absence epilepsy. However, higher patient age increases the chance of terminal seizure remission.