[Prognostic value of data from clinical, EEG and neuroimaging assessment in epilepsy with complex partial seizures].

INTRODUCTION: The well-known etiology, length of active epilepsy, partial or mixed seizure types and high frequency of seizures before treatment relate with a worst prognosis for seizures control. We have attempted to prove these factors in our study. METHOD: We analyzed the electro-clinical characteristics, evolution and etiology of seizures in 151 patient with several type of partial epilepsy. Subsequently, we related the estimated improvement with diverse variables. RESULTS: A significant statistically difference appeared as for seizures frequency at onset, existing among 15% to 44.3% more patient in which the frequency descended to more of 50% when the initial frequency was more than one to the month. Upon relating the improvement with the MR anomaly also appeared significant difference: there was between 7.9% and 73.7% more patient with hypersignal on long TR sequences in the group that did not decrease the frequency of their crisis to more than 50%.