Special Populations Older patients tend to be at higher risk for surgical procedures and may benefit from a less invasive approach. In a small comparative case series of patients older than 50 years with intractable mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, the success rate of laser ablation was similar to ...
Selective amygdalohippocampectomy (SAH) can be carried out in classic medial TLE cases, and laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) should be considered as a minimally invasive alternative to open SAH when it is available. Overall SAH success rate is lower in pediatric patients than in adults...
However, the current success rate for resective surgery — in which the surgeon removes some of the brain tissues where seizures originate — is around 50% to 60%. One of the reasons is that the EZs were not accurately identified. To identify the EZs, patients undergo a series of tests, ...
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It is not clear if open surgery after LITT has the same success rate as initial open surgery or if it carries any additional short-term or long-term risks beyond initial open surgery. Lastly, the added expense of undergoing more than one surgical procedure is another consideration. In the ...
(<200) but that half became seizure free at a median of 14 months after treatment with a complication rate of around 8% (excluding headache which was more common) and rates of visual field defects similar to open surgery. MRI-guided laser thermocoagulation has been undertaken in a few ...
Unfortunately, this article could not address that concern at all since none of the published studies discussed the cost of evaluating patients for surgery and ultimately completing the surgeries. Fourth, this study could not provide a reliable estimate of overall success rate with epilepsy surgery ...
Jessica’s surgery was a success, and they returned three more times to Montreal, once for a subsequent surgery and twice more for follow up tests. On one of these visits, Cornes and her daughter were waiting for their appointment when they saw a little girl running down the hall. Cornes...
Your epilepsy team can help you understand the risks and benefits of surgery so you can make the best decision that will help you control your seizures
Epilepsy surgery is a useful but underutilized approach to intractable pediatric epilepsy. In some cases, potentially curative operations can be performed in an attempt to either resect or disconnect the epileptogenic zone. The success of these operations may depend highly on a number of other factor...