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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: epilepsy surgery + surgery + epilepsy  Related to the article below (Last Update: 8/5/2008)

Medical posts unfilled, says trust
The Press Association -
... epilepsy. "This is putting a lot of stress on the service. This will affect people with acute, life-threatening conditions, which don't involve surgery ...
Ham Lake family walking to raise money for epilepsy research
Coon Rapids Herald, MN - Aug 1, 2008
The Meuniers saw brain surgery as Hannah?s last hope for a cure from epilepsy. Hannah went through numerous tests and was flown out to the National ...
Surgery transforms Tiffin boy
Toledo Blade, OH - Aug 1, 2008
Epilepsy surgery has been around for decades, but fell out of favor with the development of anti-seizure medications, said Dr. Deepak Lachhwani, ...
Michelle Brown doesn't let epilepsy stop her from running the ...
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - Jul 27, 2008
Since the surgery, in which a 1-inch by 4-inch section of her left frontal lobe was removed, the seizures have been more like senior moments -- pockets of ...HKG:0004
Pediatric-epilepsy unit opens
Arizona Republic, AZ - Aug 1, 2008
... determine whether patients need surgery, therapy or other treatment. Previously, St. Joseph's treated both adults and children in its one epilepsy unit. ...
Seizures: What they are, and what causes them
CBC.ca, Canada - Jul 28, 2008
There appear to be some advantages to doing epilepsy surgery in children, rather than waiting for adulthood: children's brains are more "plastic" than ...
100000 people in city have epilepsy, only 25% seek help: AKU
Daily Times, Pakistan - Jul 9, 2008
This programme offers comprehensive treatment of epilepsy including evaluation of those patients for epilepsy surgery who have failed medical treatment ...
Loosening the grip of seizures on ordinary lives
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - Jul 29, 2008
... underwent surgery in May to see if removing malfunctioning brain tissue was an option. It wasn't. But now Hannah and her family are taking on epilepsy ...
Yesterday's gone: Beki's life
Denver Post, CO - Aug 3, 2008
By Jason Blevins Beki Propst, 57, 10 years ago she endured an epileptic seizure that erased her memory. She has nothing from her first 47 years. ...
Antimicrobial Sutures Reduce Infections In Brain Shunt Surgery ...
Science Daily (press release) - Jul 27, 2008
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A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Surgery for Temporal-Lobe Epilepsy -
S Wiebe, WT Blume, JP Girvin, M Eliasziw? - New England Journal of Medicine, 2001 - content.nejm.org
... Seizure outcome after resective epilepsy surgery in patients with low IQ. ...
Health care costs decline after successful epilepsy surgery. ...

Cerebral Cortical Dysplasia: Giant Neurons Show Potential for Increased Excitation and Axonal … -
P Epilepsy, E Surgery - Logo, 1999 - content.karger.com
... Clinical Material Children with intractable seizures were evaluated at the Universi-
ty of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Pro- gram ...

… of Cortical Neurons Obtained from Children with Catastrophic Epilepsy: Dopamine Receptor Modulation … -
P Epilepsy, E Surgery - Logo, 1999 - content.karger.com
... N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDAR1) and GluR1] in cortical tissue samples ob- tained from
children (ages 3 months to 16 years) un- dergoing epilepsy surgery. ...

Stereotactic radiotherapy instead of conventional epilepsy surgery -
ER Heikkinen, MI Heikkinen, K Sotaniemi - Acta Neurochirurgica, 1992 - Springer
... Stereotactic Radiotherapy Instead of Conventional Epilepsy Surgery ... 160 ER Heikkinen
et al.: Stereotactic Radiotherapy Instead of Conventional Epilepsy Surgery ...

Seizure outcome after epilepsy surgery in children and adolescents -
E Wyllie, YG Comair, P Kotagal, J Bulacio, W … - Annals of Neurology, 1998 - doi.wiley.com
Page 1. Seizure Outcome after Epilepsy Surgery in Children and Adolescents ... Few epilepsy
surgery outcome data are available from series of pediatric patients. ...

Outcome assessment for epilepsy surgery: the impact of measuring health-related quality of life. -
BG Vickrey, RD Hays, J Engel Jr, K Spritzer, WH … - Ann Neurol, 1995 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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A health-related quality of life instrument for patients evaluated for epilepsy surgery -
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A Health-Related Quality of Life Instrument for Patients Evaluated for Epilepsy
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Outcomes in 248 patients who had diagnostic evaluations for epilepsy surgery. -
BG Vickrey, RD Hays, R Rausch, J Engel Jr, BR … - Lancet, 1995 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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A Comparison of Magnetoencephalography, MRI, and V-EEG in Patients Evaluated for Epilepsy Surgery -
JW Wheless, LJ Willmore, JI Breier, M Kataki, JR … - Epilepsia, 1999 - Blackwell Synergy
... EEG in Patients Evaluated for Epilepsy Surgery J ... studied. Patients who were evaluated
for and underwent epilepsy surgery were recruited. The ...

Gamma Knife Surgery for Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy -
J Regis, F Bartolomei, M Rey, P Genton, C Dravet, … - Epilepsia, 1999 - Blackwell Synergy
... These results need further confirmation of long-term efficiency, but the introduction
of GK surgery into epilepsy surgery can reduce dramatically its ...

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Surgery in infants with epilepsy can improve development

Last Updated: 2007-05-09 16:16:28 -0400 (Reuters Health)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Epilepsy surgery can improve the developmental outcomes of affected infants, and the earlier it is performed, the better, new research shows.

Few studies have examined the impact of epilepsy surgery on patients younger than 3 years old, lead author Dr. Tobias Loddenkemper, from the Cleveland Clinic, and colleagues note in the journal Pediatrics.Although surgery is the treatment of choice for seizures that don't respond to drugs, deciding when to operate can be difficult, according to the report. Early surgery might improve developmental outcomes, yet it may also be an unnecessary risk if the seizures later become responsive to drug treatment.

The present study involved 50 infants who underwent epilepsy surgery and later were evaluated using the Bayley Scales of Infant Development. From each Bayley score, a development quotient was derived to allow comparison of children at different ages.

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Of the 24 infants with complete data, the majority -- 17 -- became seizure-free after surgery and 5 more experienced greater than 90 percent reduction in seizures. One patient experienced a greater than 50 percent seizure reduction and one had no change.

Surgery was associated with improvements in development. The developmental status before surgery was a predictor of developmental function after surgery.

The biggest improvements in development were noted in infants treated at younger ages and in those with epileptic spasms.

The investigators believe that this is the first study to use formal neurodevelopmental testing before and after surgery in infants under 36 months old at the time of epilepsy surgery, the investigators note.

SOURCE: Pediatrics, May, 2007.

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