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Putting it all together: Options for intractable epilepsy
- Source :
- Epilepsy & Behavior. 88:33-38
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2018.
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Abstract
- For drug-resistant epilepsy, nonpharmacologic treatments should be considered early rather than late. Of the nondrug treatments, only resective surgery can be curative. Neurostimulation is palliative, i.e., not expected to achieve a seizure-free outcome. While resective surgery is the goal, other options are necessary because the majority of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy are not surgical candidates, and others have seizures that fail to improve with surgery or have only partial improvement but not seizure freedom. Neurostimulation modalities include vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), responsive neurostimulation (RNS), and deep brain stimulation (DBS), each with its own advantages, disadvantages, and side effects. In most scenarios, determined by noninvasive evaluation, especially EEG and MRI, several strategies are reasonable. For focal epilepsies, the choices are between resective surgery, with or without intracranial EEG, and all three modalities of neurostimulation. In situations where resective surgery is likely to result in seizure freedom, such as mesiotemporal lobe epilepsy or lesional focal epilepsy, resection (standard, laser, or radiofrequency) is preferred. For difficult cases like extratemporal nonlesional epilepsies, neurostimulation offers a less invasive option than resective surgery. For generalized and multifocal epilepsies, VNS is an option, RNS is not, and DBS has only limited evidence. "This article is part of the Supplement issue Neurostimulation for Epilepsy."
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- medicine.medical_specialty
Modalities
Deep brain stimulation
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Intractable epilepsy
Electroencephalography
medicine.disease
Surgery
03 medical and health sciences
Behavioral Neuroscience
Epilepsy
0302 clinical medicine
Neurology
medicine
Epilepsy surgery
030212 general & internal medicine
Neurology (clinical)
business
Neurostimulation
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Vagus nerve stimulation
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Details
- ISSN :
- 15255050
- Volume :
- 88
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Epilepsy & Behavior
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........be93f895fcd08ced2312afe9d684cf43