In patients with refractory epilepsy, evaluation of epilepsy surgery should be part the diagnostic work-up. Epilepsy and are common in people intellectual disability. Therefore, its chances success risks has to discussed. The presurgical procedures may have adapted patientʼs cognitive emotional abilities. Whether disabilities experience postoperative seizure freedom less frequently, yet determi...

Epilepsy surgery is indicated in select patients with medically refractory focal epilepsy. Seizure freedom or significant reduction of seizure burden without risking new neurological deficits is the expected goal of epilepsy surgery. Typically, when the seizure onset zone overlaps with eloquent cortex, patients are excluded from the surgery. We present a patient with medically refractory fronta...

Investigators from Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, Barcelona, Spain, studied the relationship between the etiology of refractory childhood epilepsy, CSF neurotransmitters, pterins, and amino acids, and response to a ketogenic diet in 60 patients with refractory epilepsy, 83% focal and 52% idiopathic.

PURPOSE To evaluate sleep disturbances or sleep related events and their characteristics among patients with medically refractory epilepsy, compared to those with controlled epilepsy. METHODS In a prospective case-controlled study, patients of medically refractory and controlled epilepsy were recruited and history pertaining to epilepsy and sleep related events and Epworth sleepiness scores w...

Introduction: FDG Brain PET is a valuable paraclinical tool for presurgical assessments of patients suffering from refractory epilepsy. By the widespread accessibility of PET, recognizing the functional lesions has become a current practical method especially in preoperative evaluations of the partial epilepsy disorders. The aim of our study was to assess the impact of quantit...