Microneurosurgical Management of Intractable Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) from Mesial Temporal Sclerosis (MTS) by Amygdalohippocampectomy plus Standard Anterior Temporal Lobectomy: A Report of Three Cases

Chowdhury, Forhad Hossain; Haque, Raziul; Islam, Shafiqul; Sarker, Asit Chandra; Islam, Afm Mofakkharul

doi:10.3329/jom.v12i1.6934

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“…In a five‐case epilepsy surgery series from Bangladesh (Chowdhury et al ., 2010), one of the patients suffered from a tuberculoma. The patient presented typical mesial temporal seizures with increasing frequency for over almost a year without any neurological deficit or deterioration of general condition or cognitive functions.…”

Section: Part Ii: Infectious Agents and Epilepsymentioning

confidence: 99%

Epilepsy after cerebral infection: review of the literature and the potential for surgery

Ramantani

Holthausen

2017

Epileptic Disorders

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The risk of unprovoked seizures in population‐based cohorts of cerebral infection survivors is 7–8% in developed countries, rising to considerably higher rates in resource‐poor countries. The main risk factors for epilepsy after cerebral infection, besides acute seizures, are infection‐associated brain lesions and status epilepticus during the acute phase. Despite the high prevalence of pharmacoresistant epilepsies after cerebral infections, especially in patients with MRI‐identifiable lesions, only a small minority undergoes epilepsy surgery. However, excellent surgical candidates are particularly those with a history of meningitis or encephalitis in early childhood, hippocampal sclerosis on MRI, as well as a history, seizure semiology, and EEG‐findings compatible with the diagnosis of a mesial temporal lobe epilepsy syndrome. More challenging are patients with neocortical/extratemporal lobe epilepsies post cerebral infection. Finally, patients with a severe hemispheric injury with contralateral hemiparesis are candidates for hemispherectomy/hemispherotomy. This review attempts to shed some light on this frequent cause of symptomatic focal epilepsy, with an emphasis on the chances offered by epilepsy surgery.

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Section: Part Ii: Infectious Agents and Epilepsymentioning

confidence: 99%