Surgical treatment of epilepsy

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Epilepsy is a disease that perplexes many people and seriously endangers the health of patients. Patients with epilepsy need timely treatment. There are many kinds of treatment methods for epilepsy, including drug treatment, diet treatment, surgical treatment and so on. Some people in the use of surgical treatment of epilepsy, after a few years and relapse, surgical treatment of epilepsy to tell you.

Surgical treatment of epilepsy

First: first of all, we can talk about epilepsy, because epilepsy is due to transient brain dysfunction syndrome. It is characterized by repeated firing caused by abnormal discharge of brain neurons. Therefore, the classification can be divided into: idiopathic epilepsy, symptomatic epilepsy, cryptogenic epilepsy.

Second: the clinical manifestations of epilepsy are closely related to the severity of the disease, which can be divided into the following categories: generalized tonic clonic seizures (grand), simple partial seizures, complex partial seizures, absence seizures (Mini seizures) and status epilepticus.

Third: now surgery is based on electroencephalogram to treat, because epilepsy is caused by abnormal discharge of brain neuron cells, resulting in dysfunction of brain neuron cells, so surgery can remove these lesions, completely eliminate epilepsy, can achieve clinical cure of epilepsy.

matters needing attention

In view of your symptoms, the current suggestions are: to prevent the occurrence of epilepsy, we should conduct a detailed family investigation; for patients with epilepsy, we should timely diagnose and treat them as soon as possible. The earlier the treatment, the smaller the brain damage, the less the recurrence, and the better the prognosis.