The Effect of Clonazepam in Children with Typical Absence

Abstract

Twelve epileptics with the age ranging from 4to 9 years who had typical absence without other epileptic seizures were treated with clonazepam for the periods from three to twenty-six months (average sixteen months) at the Department of Pediatrics, Keio University and the Second Tokyo National Hospital. In this series, ten fresh cases without history of previous therapy were treated with this drug only and in other two cases the seizures were intractable to conventional anticonvulsant drugs, to which clonazepam was newly added.