Stop Epileptic Seizures with Surgery
According to this MSNBC.com Article, Surgery is not used enough in Adults.
From the Article:
“Almost 3 million Americans have epilepsy, periodic electrical storms inside the brain. When circuits misfire fast enough, a seizure results. Many are born with it, but epilepsy can develop at any age, particularly after injury to brain cells such as head trauma, meningitis or a mini-stroke.
Up to 30 percent of patients have intractable epilepsy: Medicines don’t prevent all their seizures, or they cause intolerable side effects. Many are candidates for surgery, cutting out the abnormal brain tissue that sparks seizures. At leading centers, up to 80 percent of surgery recipients become seizure-free, with few complications.
And improved technology is allowing surgeons to better pinpoint the bad spot and remove less brain tissue — half as much as the most common epilepsy surgery removed just a few years ago, says Dr. P. David Adelson, a neurosurgeon at the Pittsburgh children’s hospital.”
Read More: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18786765/
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