Cutting-edge laser brain surgery stifles seizures for epilepsy patientsThe technique, called laser ablation, is a revolutionary laser brain surgery and was performed recently at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New BrunswickNJ.com
“We believe the use of MRI-guided laser surgery will change the face of epilepsy treatment and provide a life-changing option for many epilepsy surgery candidates — both children and adults,” said Dr. Angus Wilfong, director of Texas Children’s comprehensive epilepsy program and associate prof...
For decades, the most commonly used treatments for epilepsy were pharmaceuticals or resection surgery, which involves removing a segment of brain tissue from where the patient’s seizures originate. These remedies can work well and continue to be the best treatment option in many cases, but they ...
Refractory epilepsy when criteria per CPB 0394 - Epilepsy Surgery are met; or Persons with recurrent brain metastases, recurrent glioblastoma, or radiation necrosis who are poor surgical candidates for craniotomy and resection, where open surgery presents prohibitive surgical risk or tumor is located at...
Although surgical excision constitutes first-line therapy for various brain pathologies, it can cause irreversible neurologic deficits. Additionally, many patients who may benefit from surgery do not qualify as surgical candidates due to multiple comorbidities. Recent advancements in laser interstitial ...
It is still estimated that only one-third of surgical candidates undergo operative intervention (Pestana Knight et al., Epilepsia 56:375, 2015). In contrast to the stable to declining rates of adult epilepsy surgery (Englot et al., Neurology 78:1200–1206, 2012; Neligan et al., Epilepsia...
It has various applications, such as treatment of glioma, brain metastases, radiation necrosis, and epilepsy. It can provide a safer alternative treatment option for patients in whom the lesion is not accessible by surgery, who are not surgical candidates, or in whom other standard treatment ...
There is an estimated 2.4 million people diagnosed with epilepsy each year, according to the World Health Organization. Some types of epileptic seizure can be essentially cured by open surgery for patients who don't respond to medical therapy, but it com
For both malignant and benign intracranial lesions, laser thermal interstitial therapy is considered a safe treatment option. In the difficult treatment of patients who are not candidates for open surgery due to deep inaccessible tumors, medical comorbidities, or extensive prior intracranial treatment ...