Quality-of-Life Outcomes in Adults Following Epilepsy Surgery
Author Surgical procedure Sample size Age at onset Age at surgery Study age Outcome measures Seizure outcome Summary of results Follow-up interval 1. Kim et al. [12] Not specified 19…
Long-Term Educational and Vocational Outcomes of Adults After Epilepsy Surgery
Study Sample Design and follow-up period Age at study Age at onset Age at surgery Focus Educational and vocational outcomes Augustine et al. (1984) USA 32 temporal, frontal, or occipital-parietal…
Long-Term Cognitive Outcomes After Epilepsy Surgery in Adults
1. Published in a peer review journal Anecdotal or descriptive reports of neuropsychological function, published in book chapters were excluded 2. Include adult participants Studies with mixed pediatric and adult…
Mortality After Epilepsy Surgery
Country and reference Surgery cases, n Age, years Type of surgery/epilepsy Follow-up average, years Comparison with non-surgery Association with seizure outcome assessed Causes of death analyzed USA [18] 202 Adolescents…
Long-Term Psychiatric and Behavior Outcomes in Children Following Epilepsy Surgery
Preoperative (total 60) Postoperative (total 57) Affected at any time PDD 23 (38 %) 21 (37 %) 23 (38 %) ADHD 14 (23 %) 13 (23 %) 16 (27…
Why a Volume on Long-Term Outcomes of Epilepsy Surgery?
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Kristina Malmgren, Sallie Baxendale and J. Helen Cross (eds.)Long-Term Outcomes of Epilepsy Surgery in Adults and Children10.1007/978-3-319-17783-0_1 1. Why a Volume on Long-Term Outcomes of Epilepsy Surgery? Kristina Malmgren1, 2 , Sallie Baxendale3 and…
Long-Term Psychiatric Outcomes After Epilepsy Surgery in Adults
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Kristina Malmgren, Sallie Baxendale and J. Helen Cross (eds.)Long-Term Outcomes of Epilepsy Surgery in Adults and Children10.1007/978-3-319-17783-0_7 7. Long-Term Psychiatric Outcomes After Epilepsy Surgery in Adults Andres M. Kanner1 (1) Department of Neurology,…
Methodological Demands on Observational Studies of Outcomes After Epilepsy Surgery
Retrospective design Ill-defined study cohort Subjective outcome measures Poorly defined prognostic predictors Follow-up of variable duration across patients Small sample size Absence of masking Changing technologies and procedures Inadequate control…
Long-Term Cognitive Outcomes After Epilepsy Surgery in Children
Fig. 6.1 Neurodevelopmental trajectories of epilepsy surgery candidates (Adapted from: van Schooneveld and Braun [18], by indicating proportions of children showing different postoperative cognitive trajectories): A stable development in parallel…
