Moritz Steinruecke, Conor Gillespie, Najma Ahmed, Soham Bandyopadhyay, Dorota Duklas, Mahta Haghighat Ghahfarokhi, David E Henshall, Mehdi Khan, Rosaline de Koning, James Madden, Jeffery Samuel Nicholas Marston, Rana Ali Abdelrahim Mohamed, Shiva A Nischal, Emma Jane Norton, Gokul Parameswaran, Anca-Mihaela Vasilica, John Ong Ying Wei, Chloe Ec Williams, Ffion Williams, Shakti Agrawal, Dionysios N Grigoratos, Anil Israni, Ram Kumar, Nadine McCrea, Jayesh Patel, Maria-Christina Petropoulos, Jaspal Singh
PURPOSE: Benign Epilepsy with Centro-Temporal Spikes (BECTS) is a pediatric epilepsy with typically good seizure control. Although BECTS may increase patients' risk of developing neurological comorbidities, their clinical care and short-term outcomes are poorly quantified. METHODS: We retrospectively assessed adherence to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines relating to specialist referral, electroencephalogram (EEG) conduct and annual review in the care of patients with BECTS, and measured their seizure, neurodevelopmental and learning outcomes at three years post-diagnosis...
October 14, 2023: Epilepsy & Behavior: E&B