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Surgery in Epilepsy
Another
possibility for selected people only. Consider individuals include those with
intractable epilepsy (those who don't respond to any form of drug therapy) and
having too frequent seizures recurrence such that their life has been disabled.
In addition, extensive testing is performed to ensure that the 3 criteria
for surgery are met.
Criteria for surgery
1.
Partial onset with exact focal onset
2.
Area of surgery should not be vital to patient’s future quality of life
3.
Successful result would significantly improves patient’s quality of
life
Surgical
procedures involve accurate identification and removing a part of the brain
where the seizure is starting off or interruption of the electrical activity in
the brain during seizure via surgically disconnection or isolating the abnormal
areas and stop the seizures from spreading to the neighboring normal regions.
Depending
upon the type of epilepsy and the procedure performed, up to 90% of patients
treated surgically may improve or becomes seizure free. However, there shan’t
be any inappropriately high expectations for seizure free outcome. As with any
operation, there are some risks involved (mortality approximate 1%). Cost can be
high but intractable epilepsy for a lifetime can be even higher!
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