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Quality of life after epilepsy surgery.
OBJECTIVE To assess the relation between seizure status and quality of life after surgery for drug resistant epilepsy, using a previously validated quality of life model developed for use in epilepsy. METHODS A retrospective postal survey was made on 94 patients who underwent surgery for epilepsy between 1986 and 1994, and 36 patients who after investigation during the same period were found ...
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Treatment of chronic conditions often entails trade-offs between benefits and risks or side effects. This is of particular importance in epilepsy. Consequently, assessment of effectiveness must incorporate this trade-off as perceived by the recipient of the intervention, ie., the patient. Measurement of health related quality of life (HRQOL) aims at capturing such patient-centred effects of the...
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UNLABELLED Epilepsy can affect the quality of life (QOL) of patients. The temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is often refractory to medication, which has an adverse impact on QOL. The surgery can be a form to control the seizures and to improve the QOL of the patients. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to verify the QOL of children and adolescents with TLE who underwent surgery for epilepsy, comp...
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Critical to decision analysis studies are measures of outcome utilities. In epilepsy surgery the benefit versus risk ratio is of particular interest in neocortical resections. Using the standard gamble, we measured preferences of 30 epilepsy patients for 10 outcome states specific to neocortical epilepsy surgery. Although considered preliminary, the findings suggest that the value of being seiz...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Neurology Briefs
سال: 2006
ISSN: 2166-6482,1043-3155
DOI: 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-20-3-10