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Neurologic Clinics, 1993 Epilepsy surgery is assuming greater importance in treating patients with partial epilepsy whose seizures are uncontrolled with antiepileptic drugs. Many good candidates for surgical treatment are not presented with the option of surgery. The evaluation for epilepsy surgery is extensive and includes several stages of noninvasive and invasive testing ...
O, Devinsky, S, Pacia
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SAGE Open Medicine, 2022 Objective: This study aims to evaluate knowledge and awareness toward surgical treatment of epilepsy among medical students at Umm Al-Qura University.
Rami Algahtani +7 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 +6 more
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Reasons for not having epilepsy surgery
Epilepsia, 2021 This study was undertaken to determine reasons for adults with drug‐resistant focal epilepsy who undergo presurgical evaluation not proceeding with surgery, and to identify predictors of this course.
Anthony Khoo +5 more
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BMJ Open, 2023 Introduction Resective epilepsy surgery is often seen as a last resort when treating drug-resistant epilepsy. Positive results on quality of life (QoL) and economic benefits after surgery argue for a less restrictive attitude towards epilepsy surgery for
Sander van Kuijk +12 more
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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 +11 more
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Insular epilepsy surgery [PDF]
Epilepsia, 2017 SummarySince it was originally described nearly 70 years ago, insular epilepsy has been increasingly recognized and may explain failures after apparently well‐planned operations. We review the history of awareness of the phenomenon, techniques for its assessment, and its surgical management.
Pramote, Laoprasert +2 more
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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 +11 more
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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 +12 more
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