Clinical characteristics, seizure control, and delivery outcomes in pregnant women with focal and generalized epilepsies.

Objective: To prospectively investigate the course of epilepsy and assess seizure control during pregnancy in women with focal epilepsy (FE) compared with generalized epilepsy (GE), to ascertain the effects of epilepsy and its types on delivery and neonatal outcomes, and to compare adverse outcomes between pregnancies complicated by epilepsy and normal pregnancies.

Methods: 124 pregnant women with epilepsy (WWE) were enrolled in a prospective study. Obstetric and neonatal outcomes were compared with those of 277 healthy women in the control group.