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
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...
Background Laser hemorrhoidoplasty (LHP) is a new technique for treatment of hemorrhoids. The exact extent of coagulation is not visible at the time of the procedure. There currently is no experimental or clinical data on the subject. Objective To evalua
A laser-based procedure for people with medication-resistant epilepsy may result in better memory function than standard surgery, while still providing comparable seizure control rates, doctors say.
Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) is a minimally invasive surgical technique used to treat neurological disorders, such as epilepsy, and brain tumors, such as glioblastoma (GBM) [1,2,3]. The effectiveness of LITT depends on the precise insertion of a laser probe into the tissue with ...
for the patient's epilepsy. Surgeons then deliver precise pulses of laser ablation to that particular region until the tissue is eliminated, in order to prevent further seizure. "The procedure has effects similar to open-brain surgery, which removespart of the brain," says Dr. Wu. "But ...
Awake Laser Ablation with Continuous Neuropsychological Testing During Treatment of Brain Tumors and Epilepsy. Neurosurg. Clin. N. Am. 2023, 34, 239–245. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] Hoffmann, C.O.; Rosenberg, C.; Linder, A.; Hosten, N. Residual tumor after laser ablation of human non-...
The MR-guided laser ablation system used in this study has already been successfully used on several pediatric epilepsy patients, and is a minimally-invasive way to eliminate the area causing theseizures. Methodist neurosurgeon Todd Trask implanted a laser probe in the patient'sbrainthrough a hole...