Research Article

Efficacy of Perampanel in Nocturnal Seizures in Adult Patients with Epilepsy

Table 1

Demographic and clinical baseline characteristics.

Variable

Age, years ( (range)) (16-77)
Sex (male), (%)29 (60.4)
Age at epilepsy onset, years ( (range)) (0-77)
Epilepsy duration, years ( (range)) (0.5-63)
Epilepsy type, (%)
 Focal39 (81.3)
 Generalized6 (12.5)
 Focal/generalized1 (2.1)
 Unknown2 (4.2)
Focal localization (), (%)
 Frontal12 (30.8)
 Occipital1 (2.6)
 Temporal25 (64.1)
 Undetermined1 (2.6)
Syndrome, (%)
 Focal epilepsy of unknown etiology14 (29.2)
 Focal epilepsy of structural etiology29 (60.4)
 Idiopathic generalized epilepsy3 (6.3)
 Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy1 (2.1)
 Other1 (2.1)
Etiology, (%)
 Unknown14 (29.2)
 Structural27 (56.3)
 Infectious2 (4.2)
 Genetics5 (10.4)
Specific cause (), (%)
 Vascular3 (11.1)
 Tumor5 (18.5)
 Mesial sclerosis8 (29.6)
 Malformation cortical development8 (29.6)
 Cavernoma/arteriovenous malformation1 (3.7)
 Postanoxic encephalopathy after cardiac arrest1 (3.7)
 Neonatal anoxia1 (3.7)
Drug-resistant epilepsy, (%)37 (70.8)

CNS: central nervous system; SD: standard deviation.