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Surgery
Sun, 04/22/2007 - 05:02Topic: Surgery and Devices
How do you know that you could be a Candidate for Surgery?
Comments
Re: You will need to undergo a
Submitted by Nylrad on Tue, 2007-04-24 - 20:40
Thank you for your reply; I know there are a lot of tests to go through, I'm going to check out the link you shared with me now. Thanks again!
Re: Surgery
Submitted by alias3rn on Tue, 2007-04-24 - 18:10
First thing to do is ask your doctor if surgery is an option. Typically, complex partial seizures are the only ones that are possible to remove. I'm not saying that others seizures aren't surgical or that all complex partial seizures are removable, please remember that. Ask your neurologist. He/she will be the first one to know, and if they're not sure, then testing can be done. Good luck, and I hope things work out for the best.
You will need to undergo a
Submitted by aussie2006 on Mon, 2007-04-23 - 07:14
You will need to undergo a lot of testing to see igf you are a suitable candidate for surgery. A video EEG,which takes at least 7 days in hospital (in Aaustralia), is normally the first step. Thereafter you will have other tests which help in the decision if you are suitable. Some of the other tests that may be encountered are a Spect scan, Pet Scan, Wada test/ fmri scan,and other interviews with psychologists and physchatrist- all to see if you and your body can cope and is suitable for surgery. Depending on whether it is right or left temporal lobe will also affect which body functions may be affected by the surgery. There are a lot of web sites with detailed information about the surgery. Here is just one one of them.http://www.epinet.org.au/epinet2003/info/surgery.html Aussie