Antiepileptic drugs were discontinued in 104 children with epilepsy of various causes. Their age was under 15 years. They had been free of seizures for two or more years. The subjects were then followed more than 1 years. Sixty patients relapsed,
and 44
remained free of seizures. The clinical factors examined in this study were age of onset of seizure, sex, etiology, duration of seizure before treatment, type of seizure, EEG and brain C-t finding. Presence or absence of etiology, neurological
findings
before treatment, type of seizures and number of used antiepileptic drugs important in prediction outcome. Our results suggest cryptogenic epilepsy (p<0.0005), generalized type of seizure (p<0.01) and treatment with single antiepileptic drug
(p<0.005)
were favorable prognostic factors.
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