Design and validation of the ECAVINAE-LICCE scale to evaluate quality of life in children and adolescents with epilepsy.

Objective: To design and validate a scale to evaluate the quality of life in children and adolescents with epilepsy.

Methods: Scale validation, multicentered, three-phase study. We did a literature review for the construction of the instrument, and a validation of appearance, construct, criterion, and reproducibility.

[Epilepsy: classification for a diagnostic approach based on aetiology and complexities].

Introduction: In our teaching experience we have had to resort to certain tools that allow the student, physician and specialist to carry out a timely diagnosis in order to be able to establish the most accurate treatment possible, with a view to offering the patient a better prognosis.

Development: Hence, based on the different classifications elaborated by the International League against Epilepsy since the sixties, we have designed a system of classification according to the patient record and the symptomatology of the seizures that enables us to distinguish primary epilepsies from secondary ones. Accordingly, we can focus on epileptic syndromes versus neurological syndromes with epilepsy, grouping them together in four subgroups, depending on their complexity: primary (I: age; II: not age) and secondary (III: sequelae; IV: surgical and medical diseases).

[Myoclonic epilepsies in pediatrics].

Introduction: In our environment the frequency of epilepsy is 1.9% and in the central anti-epilepsy league (LICCE) of Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia, some 1,500 patients are attended each month (approximately 75 daily), of which an average of 7.2 consulted for the first time.

[Post-infectious demyelinating diseases].

Post-infectious demyelinating disorders are uncommon. In the Hospital Pediatrico de la Misericordia de Santafé de Bogotá there were 14 cases in three years. The commonest age group was the new born, as is found in the literature.