Prognóstico a Longo Prazo da Epilepsia

several studies before the 1970's about patients with epilepsy reported bad prognosis. this paper was developed to know the knowledge about it at nowadays. this was made by a narrative review mainly based on populational prospective/retrospective cohort study on patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy, follow-up period at least of 10 years, outcome variable being remission or recurrence of seizures, besides death. it is also considered the pattern of remission-relapse or worsening of epilepsy in people with pharmacoresistant epilepsy. in most people with newly diagnosed epilepsy, mainly idiopathic etiology, the long-term prognosis of epilepsy is favorable, but epilepsy remains active in approximately 30% and becomes intractable in approximately 10%. it is also recognized that people with epilepsy have an increased risk of premature death, being the highest risk soon after onset of seizures.