Table 1. Guidelines of the ILAE and the AES/AAN for elderly patients with focal-onset seizures26,27.
| ILAE guidelines (2013) | AES/AAN guidelines (2018) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type of seizures | Antiepileptic drugs | Level of evidence | |
| Newly diagnosed/untreated focal-onset seizures in elderly | Lamotrigine, gabapentin | A | Lamotrigine (Level B) |
| Carbamazepine | C | Gabapentin (Level C) | |
| Topiramate, valproate | D | ||
| Oxcarbazepine, levetiracetam, phenytoin, pregabalin, clonazepam, clobazam | E | ||
| Generalized tonic-clonic seizures | No data | No data | No recommendation |
| Myoclonic seizures | No data | No data | No recommendation |
| Absence seizures | No data | No data | No recommendation |
ILAE: International League against Epilepsy, AES/AAN: American Epilepsy Society/American Academy of Neurology.