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Driving eligibility following acute symptomatic seizure with structural brain lesion – English Version
Erschienen in: Clinical Epileptology | Sonderheft 2/2022
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Acute symptomatic seizures are often caused by acute structural brain lesions. However, German guidelines for driving eligibility do not cover this situation. Following an acute symptomatic seizure of structural etiology, the risk of later unprovoked seizures is as high as after an isolated unprovoked seizure (20–40% in 10 years). Hence, we suggest applying the same duration of observation without driving eligibility, i.e., 6 seizure-free months for private driving of passenger cars and 2 seizure-free years without antiseizure medication for busses, trucks, and professional driving.