Pediatric autoimmune epilepsy / 中国小儿急救医学

ABSTRACT

With the establishment of immune factors in the causes of epilepsy, the relationship between epilepsy and immunity has gradually become the focus of research.Autoimmune epilepsy has not been fully understood, but it is critical to identify the potential autoimmune etiology for epilepsy.Autoimmune epilepsy often does not respond well to conventional antiepileptic treatment but may be effective for immunotherapy.Therefore, timely and accurate diagnosis as well as immunotherapy intervention are important factors to improve the prognosis of children with autoimmune epilepsy.At present, limited studies are available about autoimmune epilepsy in children.We briefly reviewed the concept evolution, epidemiology, clinical features, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune epilepsy in children.