Epilepsia
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Multicenter Study
Newly diagnosed unprovoked epileptic seizures: presentation at diagnosis in CAROLE study. Coordination Active du Réseau Observatoire Longitudinal de l' Epilepsie.
We describe first unprovoked seizures and newly diagnosed epilepsies at initial presentation, with a special emphasis on epilepsy syndromes, in a large cohort recruited in the mid-1990s in France. ⋯ Approximately half of patients who first came to attention for an unprovoked seizure already met epidemiologic criteria for epilepsy. There were significant differences between the types of patients with a first seizure and those with newly diagnosed epilepsy. One or several seizures at diagnosis did not influence the diagnostic assessment of the patients but had a strong influence on the initiation of treatment.