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Pregnancy and delivery after functional hemispherectomy for Rasmussen’s encephalitis: a case report [PDF]

BMC Neurology
Background Rasmussen’s encephalitis (RE) is a rare neurologic disorder characterized by progressive seizures and unilateral cerebral atrophy with onset during childhood and unknown etiology. When medical therapy appears refractory, surgical disconnection
Elena Jost, Waltraut M. Merz, Patrick A. Kupczyk, Laura Tascón Padrón, Eva C. Weber, Christian G. Bien, Philipp Kosian   +6 more
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Differential functional reorganization of ventral and dorsal visual pathways following childhood hemispherectomy [PDF]

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2023
Hemispherectomy is a surgical procedure in which an entire hemisphere of a patient’s brain is resected or functionally disconnected to manage seizures in individuals with drug-resistant epilepsy.
Vladislav Ayzenberg, Michael C. Granovetter, Sophia Robert, Christina Patterson, Marlene Behrmann   +4 more
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Multi‐disciplinary team approach for pediatric hemimegalencephaly: Insights from a single institutional case series [PDF]

Epilepsia Open
Recent genetic studies have revealed that hemimegalencephaly (HME) is a multi‐system disorder associated with germline or mosaic variants within the PI3K‐mTOR‐GATOR1 signaling pathways.
Benjamin Edmonds, Jacqueline P. Ngo, Aran Groves, Beck Reyes, Rolanda A. Gott, Dennis J. Chia, Hilda Mirbaha, Shino Magaki, Negar Khanlou, Stacy L. Pineles, Noriko Salamon, Rachel M. Thompson, Maya Newman, Rajsekar R. Rajaraman, Shaun A. Hussain, Aria Fallah, Bianca Russell, Hiroki Nariai   +17 more
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Epilepsy surgery for children with epileptic spasms: A systematic review and meta‐analysis with focus on predictors and outcomes [PDF]

Epilepsia Open
To conduct a systematic review of the literature regarding rates and predictors of favorable seizure outcome after resective surgery for epileptic spasms (ES) in pediatric patients.
Taylor Kolosky, Andrea Goldstein Shipper, Kai Sun, Busra Tozduman, Soren Bentzen, Ahsan N. Moosa, Gozde Erdemir   +6 more
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Case Report: Resting-State Brain-Networks After Near-Complete Hemispherectomy in Adulthood

Frontiers in Neurology, 2022
ObjectivesUnderstanding the dynamics of reorganized network-level brain functions after hemispherectomy is important for treatment, prognostication, and rehabilitation of brain injury, but also for investigating questions of fundamental neurobehavioral ...
Patrick M. Fisher, Patrick M. Fisher, Simon S. Albrechtsen, Vardan Nersesjan, Moshgan Amiri, Daniel Kondziella, Daniel Kondziella   +6 more
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Hemispherectomy with corpus callosotomy in pediatric Lennox Gastaut Syndrome associated encephalomalacia cyst: The first case in Indonesia

Rwanda Medical Journal, 2022
Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is a form of severe epileptic encephalopathy in children. LGS with encephalomalacia cysts is rare in children. We report a six-year-old mentally retarded boy who was referred for an intractable seizure.
P. I. Gunawan, W. Suryaningtyas
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Functional hemispherectomy for patients with adult-onset Rasmussen’s encephalitis

Acta Epileptologica, 2021
Background Surgical treatment for patients with adult-onset Rasmussen’s encephalitis (A-RE) is rarely reported. We investigated the clinical and surgical features of two patients with A-RE who underwent functional hemispherectomy.
Hong Xue, Cuiping Xu, Xiaoxia Zhou, Duanyu Ni, Xueyuan Wang, Tao Yu   +5 more
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Evidence for Using ACQUIRE Therapy in the Clinical Application of Intensive Therapy: A Framework to Guide Therapeutic Interactions

Behavioral Sciences, 2023
Intensive therapies have become increasingly popular for children with hemiparesis in the last two decades and are specifically recommended because of high levels of scientific evidence associated with them, including multiple randomized controlled ...
Stephanie C. DeLuca, Mary Rebekah Trucks, Dorian Wallace, Sharon Landesman Ramey   +3 more
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Right Peri-insular Hemispherotomy: 2-dimensional operative video

Archives of Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2022
This is a surgical technique video of a right peri-insular hemispherotomy in a child with Rasmussen’s encephalitis. The patient is a 5-year-old boy with focal onset impaired awareness seizures started 6 months before surgery, developing different ...
Cleiton Formentin, Andrei Fernandes Joaquim, Helder Tedeschi, Enrico Ghizoni   +3 more
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Intrinsic Functional Connectivity of the Brain in Adults with a Single Cerebral Hemisphere

Cell Reports, 2019
Summary: A reliable set of functional brain networks is found in healthy people and thought to underlie our cognition, emotion, and behavior. Here, we investigated these networks by quantifying intrinsic functional connectivity in six individuals who had
Dorit Kliemann, Ralph Adolphs, J. Michael Tyszka, Bruce Fischl, B.T. Thomas Yeo, Remya Nair, Julien Dubois, Lynn K. Paul   +7 more
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