Treatment and Long-Term Prognosis of Myoclonic-Astatic Epilepsy of Early Childhood

Abstract

MAE is considered to form a clinical spectrum ranging in its main seizure type from myoclonic to atonic, and in seizure and intellectual outcomes from benign to malignant. The overall prognosis, despite initial resistance to treatment, appears to be much better than originally thought when ILAE definitions excluding SME are followed.