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NAGATA Satoru
Department School of Medicine(Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital), School of Medicine Position Professor and Division head |
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| Article types | Original article |
| Language | English |
| Peer review | Non peer reviewed |
| Title | Transition from pediatric to adult care in a Japanese cohort of childhood-onset epilepsy: prevalence of epileptic syndromes and complexity in the transition. |
| Journal | Formal name：Seizure Abbreviation：Seizure ISSN code：15322688/10591311 |
| Domestic / Foregin | Foregin |
| Volume, Issue, Page | 88,pp.1-6 |
| Author and coauthor | OGUNI Hirokazu, ITO Susumu, NISHIKAWA Aiko, OTANI Yui, NAGATA Satoru |
| Publication date | 2021/05 |
| Summary | AIM:We retrospectively examined patients with childhood-onset epilepsy who transitioned from pediatric to adult care to reveal the clinical characteristics and evaluate the complexity of transitioning.METHODS:The subjects were 220 patients (89 males, 131 females) who had been treated at our pediatric epilepsy clinic and had transferred to adult care between 2014 and 2018 without attending a transition clinic or program. The demographic data of the patients were retrospectively analyzed.RESULTS:The ages at transition ranged from 15 to 54 years (median: 27 years old). There were 91 patients with focal epilepsies (FEs) and 129 patients with generalized epilepsies [genetic generalized epilepsy (GGE) n = 30, generalized epilepsy of various etiologies (GEv) n = 99]. A most frequent epileptic syndrome was temporal lobe epilepsy followed by frontal lobe epilepsy in FEs, GTCS only followed by juvenile myoclonic epilepsy in GGE and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome followed by Dravet syndrome in GEv. At the age of transition, a total of 77 of the 96 patients with developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEE) had pharmacoresistant seizures, which was positively correlated with a late transition age (P≤0.05). More than monthly seizures and greater than moderate disabilities were noted in 45% and 55% of the patients, respectively.CONCLUSION:The patients with childhood-onset epilepsy transitioned to adult care from the hospital-based pediatric epilepsy clinic were characterized by generalized>focal epilepsy, a frequent complication of DEE, more than monthly seizures, and worse than moderate intellectual disabilities. The complication of DEE made a smooth transition difficult and delayed the transition age. |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.seizure.2021.03.017 |
| PMID | 33773226 |