Confirmed [the Effectiveness Of Surgical Treatment Of Epilepsy]

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Confirmed [the effectiveness of surgical treatment of epilepsy]

The Americans have confirmed the effectiveness of surgical treatment for epilepsy. According to the research data, seizures stopped in almost half of the patients who underwent surgery. 80 percent of those operated on reported an improvement in their quality of life after surgery.

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Surgical treatment for epilepsy has improved the quality of life for most Americans who have had surgery. According to EurekAlert !, this data came from a study led by a team led by Matthew Smyth of the University of Washington School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.

Smith and colleagues studied data from 361 epileptic patients. All study participants underwent surgical treatment of the disease between 1967 and 1990. Scientists were able to ask 117 patients about the incidence of epileptic seizures, as well as their overall quality of life after surgery. {# Vrez.54959}

According to the work, 48 percent of patients announced the cessation of seizures after surgery. In addition, 80 percent of patients who underwent surgery reported an improvement in their quality of life.

Smith noted that the results of the work indicate a long-term positive effect of surgical treatment for epilepsy. In this regard, the authors of the study proposed to operate more often on patients with epilepsy.

According to a 2001 study, fewer than 0.1 percent of the four million patients eligible for the treatment underwent surgery, according to a 2001 study. According to a report by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the same year, nearly 50 million people worldwide suffered from epileptic seizures.

The surgical method of treatment involves the localization and removal of the epileptic focus in the brain. More often than others, operations are performed on resection (partial removal) of the anterior parts of the temporal lobe of one of the hemispheres (the temporal form of epilepsy is the most common).