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Standardized reporting of complications of epilepsy surgery and invasive monitoring: A single-center retrospective study [PDF]

, 2022
Objective: Monitoring adverse effects related to epilepsy surgery is essential for quality control and for counseling patients prior to the procedure. The aim of this study was to analyze the rates of complications related to epilepsy surgery following ...
Nawfal, Omar, Farhat, Sahar, Najjar, Marwan W., Beydoun, Ahmad A., Chanbour, Hani, Bsat, Shadi Abdelatif, Omar Nawfal, Ahmad Beydoun, Marwan Najjar, Sahar Farhat, Hani Chanbour, Shadi Bsat   +11 more
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Epilepsy surgery for refractory seizures: a systematic review and meta-analysis in different complications

The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery, 2020
Background Nearly one-third of epilepsy patients are refractory/resistant to medical treatment. Developments made in surgical techniques have significantly increased the effectiveness and safety of these techniques, as such techniques have been ...
Maryam Joudi Mashhad, Hadi Harati, Fateme Parooie, Morteza Salarzaei   +3 more
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Epilepsy surgery program in a resource‐limited setting in Vietnam: A multicentered collaborative model

Epilepsia Open, 2022
Objective Although epilepsy surgery is more effective than medical therapy for drug‐resistant patients, it is underutilized in both high‐income and low‐ and middle‐income countries.
Viet‐Thang Le, Minh‐An Thuy Le, Duc Hue Nguyen, Loc Ngoc Phuong Tang, Tuan Anh Pham, Anh Minh Nguyen, Minh Kien Nguyen, Tan Van Ngo, Thanh Trung Tran, Tuan Van Le, Pierre Jallon, Kheng‐Seang Lim   +11 more
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Early epilepsy surgery for non drug-resistant patients

Epilepsy & Behavior Reports, 2022
The aim of epilepsy treatment is to achieve seizure freedom. Surgery is often still considered a late option when pharmacological treatments have failed and epilepsy has become drug-resistant.We analyse the clinical features and surgical outcome in ...
Veronica Pelliccia, Francesco Deleo, Francesca Gozzo, Ginevra Giovannelli, Roberto Mai, Massimo Cossu, Laura Tassi   +6 more
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Surgery for epilepsy [PDF]

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2019
This is an updated version of the original Cochrane review, published in 2015.Focal epilepsies are caused by a malfunction of nerve cells localised in one part of one cerebral hemisphere. In studies, estimates of the number of individuals with focal epilepsy who do not become seizure-free despite optimal drug therapy vary between at least 20% and up to
West, Siobhan, Nevitt, Sarah J, Cotton, Jennifer, Gandhi, Sacha, Weston, Jennifer, Sudan, Ajay, Ramirez, Roberto, Newton, Richard   +7 more
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Premature mortality in refractory partial epilepsy: does surgical treatment make a difference? [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Epilepsy carries an increased risk of premature death. For some people with intractable focal epilepsy, surgery offers hope for a seizure-free life.
Scott, C.A., Sander, J.W., Sinha, S, Bell, G. S., de Tisi, J., Harkness, WF, McEvoy, A.W., Walker, M. C., Duncan, John S., Scott, CA, Smith, SJ, Bell, G.S., Stephani, C, McEvoy, A.W, Bell, G.S, Peacock, JL, Sander, Josemir W., Smith, S. J., McEvoy, AW, Walker, M.C., Harkness, W.F, Harkness, W.F., Tisi, J., Peacock, J. L., Scott, C.A, Duncan, JS, Smith, S.J, McEvoy, A. W., Sander, JW, Walker, MC, Duncan, J.S, Peacock, J.L, Stephani, C., Dunacan, S.J., Peacock, J.L., Tisi, J, Bell, GS, Walker, M.C, Stephani, Caspar, Scott, Catherine, Sinha, S., Harkness, W. F., Smith, S.J., de Tisi, J, Sander, J.W   +44 more
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Long-Term Electroclinical and Employment Follow up in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Surgery. A Cuban Comprehensive Epilepsy Surgery Program

Behavioral Sciences, 2018
The purpose of this paper is to present a long- term electroclinical and employment follow up in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) patients in a comprehensive epilepsy surgery program.
Lilia Maria Morales Chacón, Ivan Garcia Maeso, Margarita M. Baez Martin, Juan E. Bender del Busto, María Eugenia García Navarro, Nelson Quintanal Cordero, Bárbara Estupiñan Díaz, Lourdes Lorigados Pedre, Ricardo Valdés Yerena, Judith Gonzalez, Randy Garbey Fernandez, Abel Sánchez Coroneux   +11 more
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Recent Aspects of Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery [PDF]

, 2019
Surgery has been and is now a well-established treatment indicated for adults and children with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE). The surgical landscape for children with DRE appears to be expanding, and surgical cases of pediatric epilepsy have increased ...
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Epilepsy surgery [PDF]

Clinical Medicine, 2007
If the first two or three antiepileptic drugs used do not control epilepsy, there is little chance that subsequent medications will be effective. In individuals with refractory focal epilepsy, neurosurgery can have a 60-70% chance of bringing long-term remission and these cases should be referred to a specialised centre for evaluation.
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Phenotypic analysis of catastrophic childhood epilepsy genes

Communications Biology, 2021
Griffin et al used CRISPR-Cas9 to generate 40 single-gene mutant zebrafish lines representing childhood epilepsies for which they evaluated larval phenotypes using electrophysiological, behavioral, neuro-anatomical, survival and pharmacological assays ...
Aliesha Griffin, Colleen Carpenter, Jing Liu, Rosalia Paterno, Brian Grone, Kyla Hamling, Maia Moog, Matthew T. Dinday, Francisco Figueroa, Mana Anvar, Chinwendu Ononuju, Tony Qu, Scott C. Baraban   +12 more
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