Friday, July 11, 2008

Surgical treatment of the effects of epilepsy

Epilepsy workers at home and abroad after decades of efforts, the majority of epilepsy patients can control the drug to do, but there are still nearly 20 percent of epilepsy patients despite the positive regular medication, seizures can not be properly controlled. Some of these cases require surgery. Different causes and different types of epilepsy, a different procedure, treatment results are also different. Many epilepsy patients surgical resection of lesions after the nerve function of the spirit of Hou greatly improved. Temporal lobe after attack if the disease under control, often take the initiative to demand work. Hemisphere resection, preoperative invasive acts and forced disappearance of symptoms become more Qun, thus pre-school children can re-admission. Many spiritual movement attack patients have decreased sexual desire, after the multi-temporal lobe resection resume. While women become more docile. Stereotactic surgery patients after the attack as the control or reduction, have different degrees of mental, social adaptability, ability and intelligence to improve. In short, all kinds of surgical treatment of epilepsy drugs can those long-term medical treatment beyond the control of patients have seizures 1 / 3 of full control and no longer medication, 1 / 3 of patients attacks decreased significantly. Therefore, the surgical treatment of epilepsy may be an effective treatment methods. Many current domestic large and medium-sized hospitals have carried out the surgery for epilepsy

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