[Clinical and epidemiological features of the five kinds of new epileptic syndrome].

Objective: To investigate the clinical and epidemiological feature of the five kinds of new epilectically syndrome.

Method: A retrospective study was conducted, by computer inquiry and manual retrieval, on 5300 patients with complete history records who had been followed up regularly in the epilepsy center of the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing University in the past 20 years to discover the cases that could be diagnosed as with the five kinds of new epileptic syndromes.

Results: Survey was finished in 4894 of the 5300 patients. Two cases of familial temporal lobe epilepsy, one case of familial partial epilepsy with variable foci, fourteen cases with mesial temporal epilepsy, and five cases with startle-provoked epileptic were discovered.

Conclusion: Patients with the five kinds of new epileptic syndrome have been discovered in China too. It is beneficial to study the clinical and epidemiological features of those new epileptic syndromes.