[Epilepsy in advanced age]

A study was performed on 174 epileptic patients aged of 65 years and over. This semeiology of seizures of 156 patients can be categorized according to the international Classification of the epilepsies. Correlations were made between epilepsy form and scan. We had found that majority (74%) of the patients manifested parital seizures either with elementary or a complex symptomatology. The generalized tonico-clonic seizures of the aged were less frequent: 9% consisted of partial seizures secondarily generalized, 1% of Grand Mal primary generalized epilepsies and 16% of secondary generalized epilepsies due to a cerebral involution which can be only detectable with CT-scan. By means of CT-scan we were able to define the true etiology in 63% of our patients.