Post-Operative Epilepsy Recurrence

Seizure recurrence following epilepsy surgery: Is post-operative EEG helpful?

OBJECTIVES We examined whether the relationship between interictal epileptiform discharges (IED) on post-operative EEG and seizure recurrence after epilepsy surgery was different in patients with neocortical and mesiotemporal resections. METHODS We reviewed the records of 93 consecutive patients who underwent epilepsy surgery at our center and who had adequate post-operative follow-up and a p...

Optimising treatment for post-operative lung cancer recurrence.

Surgical treatment offers the best chances for long-term survival in patients with primary nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, long-term survival after surgery remains less than 50%, mostly due to a 30–77% rate of tumour recurrence. Unlike the distant type of recurrence that is treated nonsurgically in the vast majority of patients, local or loco-regional recurrence, which occurs in 4.6...

Pre-Operative and Post-Operative Treatment

A new edition is most welcome. When the book appeared in 1937 it was well in advance of anything then in print. There is again a great deal of recent work assimilated into the body of the various chapters. Among the names of contributors are many new ones,some of which have been prominent in the journals during the last 8 years. We miss the name of Homans and his beautiful article on thrombosis...

Post Operative Arrhythmias

Heart rhythm disturbances are being increasingly recognized during the postoperative period. While many are transient and short lived without altering the recovery phase after cardiac or non-cardiac surgery, they do have the potential to pose a threat to patient’s health, prolong hospital stay, and in a minority of patients may even cause death. Continuous monitoring is becoming the standard of...

Post-operative fluid complications.