BACKGROUND
Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is a severe, drug-resistant developmental and epileptic encephalopathy for which corpus callosotomy (CC) can be a particularly effective option for seizure control. However, this benefit must be weighed against the tradeoff of permanent corpus callosum disconnection. Although us...
Debopam Samanta, P. Ramani, Taylor J. Abel et al.· Epilepsy Research· 0 citations
It is found that the association between early epilepsy surgery and seizure reduction in palliative procedures reflects the heterogeneity of the population, including different types of surgical procedures and lesional and nonlesional epilepsies.
Robert M Crutcher, David E. Horvat, A. Caraway et al.· Epilepsia· 0 citations
Similar children evaluated at different institutions had significant differences in the odds of not being recommended surgery, suggesting that institutional decision-making contributes importantly to surgical candidacy.
A. Caraway, Nancy A. Mcnamara, Andrew T. Knox et al.· Epilepsia· 0 citations
The goal was to analyze the outcomes of patients undergoing epilepsy surgery at the authors' center, with a minimum follow-up of 15 years, and found Appropriate referral to a refractory epilepsy center permits a multidisciplinary approach that can result in long-term seizure freedom for most patients undergoing surgery...
Delays from DRE diagnosis were independently associated with reduced seizure freedom, supporting presurgical evaluation within 1 year as an evidence-based quality benchmark, and DRE-to-evaluation interval, not total epilepsy duration, predicted outcomes.
Debopam Samanta, A. Caraway, Andrew T. Knox et al.· Neurology Clinical Practice· 0 citations
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