Epilepsy caused by traumatic brain injury is not an absolutely fatal disease, and most of the patients will not affect the survival time after regular medication control.
Epilepsy caused by traumatic brain injury is called symptomatic epilepsy, but different seizures and epileptic syndromes have different clinical features and prognosis. Overall, about 1/3 of patients with epilepsy can achieve long-term remission after a period of monotherapy, or even without treatment in a small percentage of patients.
Another about 1/3 of patients can effectively control their seizures and obtain a satisfactory outcome with monotherapy or reasonable multi-drug combination therapy. Another 1/3 of patients have poor drug therapy and can develop refractory epilepsy.
If epilepsy caused by traumatic brain injury is well controlled by medication, it generally does not affect life expectancy; if it develops into refractory epilepsy, it can affect brain function and aggravate the patient’s condition due to recurrent seizures, which may affect life expectancy.
Epilepsy caused by traumatic brain injury should be treated in a timely manner in accordance with medical advice, while maintaining a healthy lifestyle and a good state of mind.