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Childhood epilepsies are a heterogeneous group of conditions that differ in diagnostic criteria and management and have dramatically different outcomes. Despite increasing data on treatment of epilepsy, research findings on childhood epilepsy are more limited and many clinical questions remain unanswered, so that clinicians must often rely on clinical judgment. In such clinical situations, expert opinion can be especially helpful. We therefore undertook a survey of expert opinion on pediatric epilepsy and seizures. A written survey of 33 questions (645 treatment options) was sent to 41 U.S. physicians specializing in pediatric epilepsy, 39 (95%) of whom completed it. The results of this survey were used to develop a set of user-friendly treatment recommendations concerning the treatment of symptomatic myoclonic and generalized tonic-clonic seizures, complex partial seizures, infantile spasms, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, febrile seizures, benign childhood epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes, childhood and juvenile absence epilepsy, juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, and various types of status epilepticus.

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Treatment of Pediatric Epilepsy: Expert Opinion, 2005

 

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