Most patients with focal epilepsy still have seizures during first year of treatment

LOS ANGELES — For those newly diagnosed with focal epilepsy and given antiseizure medications, most will be sensitive to treatment, with seizure freedom likely to occur after the first year of administration, according to a presenter.
“What we were hoping to address was the paucity of data on focal epilepsy alone,” Sarah N. Barnard, MD, MIPH, research fellow in the department of translational medicine at Monash University in Australia, told attendees at the American Epilepsy Society annual meeting. “We also wanted to address some variability in the literature around how

LOS ANGELES — For those newly diagnosed with focal epilepsy and given antiseizure medications, most will be sensitive to treatment, with seizure freedom likely to occur after the first year of administration, according to a presenter.
“What we were hoping to address was the paucity of data on focal epilepsy alone,” Sarah N. Barnard, MD, MIPH, research fellow in the department of translational medicine at Monash University in Australia, told attendees at the American Epilepsy Society annual meeting. “We also wanted to address some variability in the literature around how