Can epilepsy be treated surgically

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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. Now I talk about my experience, epilepsy surgery.

Can epilepsy be treated surgically

First of all, the age of the patient at the time of operation has important reference value for prognosis evaluation, and it is rare to benefit from the operation if the patient is over 45 years old.

Secondly, complete resection of the brain lesion with definite pathological significance is the most powerful factor to determine whether the postoperative seizure can be controlled.

Finally: Patients with epilepsy after epilepsy surgery, if the first year did not appear epileptic seizures (excluding the seizure within weeks after surgery), then the possibility of recurrence in the future is very small. On the contrary, if the first year of secondary generalized seizures, then the possibility of recurrence of epilepsy in the future is great.

matters needing attention

The treatment of epilepsy is also quite a lot, the treatment of epilepsy first need to clarify the cause, if there is a clear intracranial lesions caused by secondary epilepsy, should first deal with intracranial lesions. Otherwise, antiepileptic drugs should be used regularly, and surgical treatment should be considered for refractory epilepsy