Month: March 2012

New study techniques improve Epilepsy Surgery outcomes. challenges in the treatment of refractory epilepsy in children. -33Rd Annual Symposium of advances in epilepsy. Organized by the Epilepsy Surgery Undad – from year ago and means, patients candidates for Epilepsy Surgery, can be studied with information that provide depth electrodes -thanks to the application of this technique, may be treated with surgery to patients with refractory epilepsy before not operated by the impossibility of knowing accurately (d)ónde is located the epileptogenic zone -80% of these compromized patients, has not returned to have seizures Spain, March 2012.- epilepsy is a chronic neurological disease of higher prevalence, after the migraine. Today 70% of the epilepsy is controlled with pharmacological treatments. For the rest of the cases, epilepsy surgery is envisaged as an alternative. Not all patients with epilepsy should operate the intervention has to be done after a study and detailed analysis that determines the desirability, or otherwise, of such surgery. This and other matters on various subjects related to the surgery are discussed every year at the Symposium on advances in epilepsy, led by Dr. Francisco Villarejo, Chief of service of neurosurgery del Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús. The edition of this year, which took place Friday, March 9 at the hospital, and under the title “Challenges in the treatment of refractory epilepsy in children”, dealt with the pathophysiology and the...