Surgical Treatment of Drug-Resistant Generalized Epilepsy

AdultPediatric

Dec 8

Bullinger KL, Alwaki A, Gross RE

Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2022 Aug;22(8):459-465.
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-022-01210-w

Would you like a brief understanding of the available evidence and the newest developments for major #surgical treatments used in drug-resistant generalized epilepsy?

Today we would like to share a review by Bullinger et al. (Jun. 2022) summarizing recent evidence for different surgical options in drug-resistant epilepsy (#DRE) patients with generalized epilepsy. This review included the rationale for using different surgical modalities, the general procedure, patient selection, parameter settings (for #neuromodulation treatments), and complications associated with corpus callosotomy and neuromodulation treatments (vagus nerve stimulation (#VNS) and deep brain stimulation (#DBS)), respectively.

Link to the article:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11910-022-01210-w

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Rodrigo Silva

Surgical Treatment of Drug-Resistant Generalized Epilepsy

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