Features of clinical and EEG changes during follow-up in patients with benign epilepsy of childhood with central-temporal spikes / 中华神经科杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the features of clinical and EEG changes during follow up in patients with BECCT. Correlative analysis between the disease duration and some factors were also performed.Methods The clinical and EEG data of 87 recovered patients with BECCT were retrospectively analyzed.Results The EEG and clinical manifestations are mostly characteristic. Clinical seizures disappeared early before the rolandic spikes of EEG in most patients,showing a longest duration of 6 years. There was only the onset age being correlative with the duration of disease in both seizures and abnormal EEG. Medication was withdrawn after there appeared seizures free for more than two years and a recovery of EEG. However medication can also be stopped even at patient′s EEG still remaining abnormal.Conclusion BECCT is an age dependent, idiopathic epilepsy syndrome in childhood, comprehensively recognizing the clinical and EEG features should be helpful in clinical practice.