Resective epilepsy surgery for drug-resistant focal epilepsy: a review

BC Jobst, GD Cascino - Jama, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Epilepsy surgery is indicated for patients with focal seizures who do not respond
to appropriate antiepileptic drug therapy consisting of 2 or more medications. Objectives To …

Rates and predictors of seizure freedom with vagus nerve stimulation for intractable epilepsy

DJ Englot, JD Rolston, CW Wright, KH Hassnain… - …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: Neuromodulation-based treatments have become increasingly important in
epilepsy treatment. Most patients with epilepsy treated with neuromodulation do not achieve …

Management of cerebral cavernous malformations: from diagnosis to treatment

N Mouchtouris, N Chalouhi, A Chitale… - The Scientific World …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Cerebral cavernous malformations are the most common vascular malformations and can
be found in many locations in the brain. If left untreated, cavernomas may lead to …

Rates and predictors of seizure freedom in resective epilepsy surgery: an update

DJ Englot, EF Chang - Neurosurgical review, 2014 - Springer
Epilepsy is a debilitating neurological disorder affecting approximately 1% of the world's
population. Drug-resistant focal epilepsies are potentially surgically remediable. Although …

Cavernoma‐related epilepsy: Review and recommendations for management—Report of the Surgical Task Force of the ILAE Commission on Therapeutic Strategies

F Rosenow, MA Alonso‐Vanegas, C Baumgartner… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCM s) are well‐defined, mostly singular lesions
present in 0.4–0.9% of the population. Epileptic seizures are the most frequent symptom in …

Seizure outcomes after resective surgery for extra–temporal lobe epilepsy in pediatric patients: a systematic review

DJ Englot, JD Breshears, PP Sun, EF Chang… - Journal of …, 2013 - thejns.org
While temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common epilepsy syndrome in adults,
seizures in children are more often extratemporal in origin. Extra–temporal lobe epilepsy …

Rates and predictors of long-term seizure freedom after frontal lobe epilepsy surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis

DJ Englot, DD Wang, JD Rolston, TT Shih… - Journal of …, 2012 - thejns.org
Object Frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) is the second-most common focal epilepsy syndrome,
and seizures are medically refractory in many patients. Although various studies have …

Magnetic resonance imaging-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy for epilepsy: systematic review of technique, indications, and outcomes

BE Youngerman, AV Save, GM McKhann - Neurosurgery, 2020 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND For patients with focal drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE), surgical resection of
the epileptogenic zone (EZ) may offer seizure freedom and benefits for quality of life. Yet …

Cranial cavernous malformations: natural history and treatment

CJ Stapleton, FG Barker - Stroke, 2018 - ahajournals.org
2 Stroke April 2018 (20.8%), and focal neurological deficit (15.2%). Of the 1620 CMs
analyzed, 50% were located in the cerebral hemispheres, 35% in the brain stem, 8% in the …

Seizure outcomes after temporal lobectomy in pediatric patients: a systematic review

DJ Englot, JD Rolston, DD Wang, PP Sun… - Journal of …, 2013 - thejns.org
Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common form of epilepsy in adults and is
responsible for 15%–20% of epilepsy cases in children. Class I evidence strongly supports …