What are advised to surgery for epilepsy

Epilepsy drug therapy is the preferred treatment for patients, but for those who use drugs to control the stubborn and intractable epilepsy patients may consider surgery, but the need for strict treatment of surgical indications, clear and stable Dian Xianzao. Surgery is the choice of targets: ① intractable epilepsy patients; ② partial seizures in patients; ③ can surgical resection of the encephalopathy rational change; ④ the age of 14 to 40 years of age; ⑤ not less than 60 IQ points in children with. Surgical treatment will enable about 50 percent of patients stop the attack or reduce the attack, but patients still taking anti-epileptic drugs 1-2 years, in the absence of seizures, EEG normal only after the gradual reduction, and some Parts of the surgery also may be hemiplegia, Pianmang, aphasia, such as postoperative complications, whether to adopt the necessary surgery for strict compliance with the indications and surgical operation indications. The young age of brain development is not yet mature and there are obvious symptoms, such as paranoid maniac, depression, schizophrenia and patients, such as IQ below 60 points, it is not appropriate to consider surgery.