Abstract
This paper evaluated long-term trend in our outpatient clinic for epileptic children, because the importance in continuous medical treatment for epileptic children has been high lighted in Japan. Ovarall, 430 epileptic children (male 225, female 205) were treated during the past ten years. The types of epilepsy were classified by the International Classification of Epilepsies, Epileptic syndromes and related seizure disordes. Most of the patients initially consulted our clinic during infancy and 30-40 new cases were treated each year. One hundred and eighty-five (43%) epileptic children consulted our clinic directly with complaints of seizures, while 134 cases (31%) were referred by other doctors. One hundred and seventy-six cases (41%) continued to consult our clinic for more than 5 years. Sixty-eight cases (16%) changed doctors. Patients consulting our clinic resided within 10km from our hospital in 82% of the cases. These results may indicate that continuous medical treatment for epileptic children is being successfully given through our facilities.
