Table 4.
- Severity of epilepsy and response to therapy using the “early childhood epilepsy severity score” (N=30).
| Seizure characteristics | n (%) |
|---|---|
| Frequency * | |
| No seizures | 10 (33.3) |
| Weekly | 14 (46.6) |
| Daily | 6 (20.0) |
| More than daily | 0 (0.0) |
| Time period | |
| Less than one month | 8 (26.6) |
| 1-6 months | 6 (20.0) |
| More than 6 months | 16 (53.3) |
| No of seizure types * | |
| 1 | 25 (83.3) |
| 2 | 4 (13.3) |
| 3 | 1 (3.3) |
| Anticonvulsants | |
| None | 3 (10.0) |
| 1-2 | 15 (50.0) |
| 3 | 12 (40.0) |
| Response to treatment | |
| Complete cessation | 19 (63.3) |
| Partial cessation | 8 (26.6) |
| No response | 3 (10.0) |
| E-CHESS score | |
| 2-7 | 9 (30.0) |
| More than 7 | 21 (70.0) |
Values are presented as numbers and percentages (%).
*
Seizure types: infantile spasms: 14, tonic/clonic:12, absence: 5, atonic: 3, tonic: 3, focal: 3, myoclonic:2, behaviour arrest: 2, and no epilepsy: 8.
E-CHESS: early childhood epilepsy severity score