Approximately 60% of people diagnosed with childhood-onset epilepsy are known to be in 5-year remission and off medication, or in complete remission. A new report confirms and consolidates these findings and gives further evidence of the long-term stability of remission in epilepsy. A future risk of relapse is suggested, which might be an overestimate.
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Sillanpää, M., Schmidt, D. Long-term rates of childhood-onset epilepsy remission confirmed. Nat Rev Neurol 11, 130–131 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneurol.2014.262
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