Refractory Familial TLE Responds Favorably to Surgical Intervention

Shunt-associated migraine responds favorably to atrial septal repair: a case-control study.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Transcatheter closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO) has been reported to improve migraine in patients with cerebrovascular disorders in noncontrolled studies. The aim of the study was to compare the course of migraine assessed prospectively over a 12-month period in symptomatic (for cerebrovascular disease) and asymptomatic patients undergoing PFO closure and in patients ...

Intracisternal tuberculoma: a refractory type of tuberculoma indicating surgical intervention

BACKGROUND Central nervous system (CNS) tuberculoma is a rare disease with severe neurological deficits. This retrospective research is to review the data of patients diagnosed as CNS tuberculoma. Surgeries were performed in all patients. The clinical features especially the neurological image and the anatomical characters of the tuberculomas were concerned. METHODS Totally 11 patients diagno...

Patients' perceptions of memory functioning before and after surgical intervention to treat medically refractory epilepsy.

PURPOSE One risk associated with epilepsy surgery is memory loss, but perhaps more important is how patients perceive changes in their memories. This longitudinal study evaluated changes in memory self-reports and investigated how self-reports relate to changes on objective memory measures in temporal or extratemporal epilepsy patients who underwent surgery. METHODS Objective memory (Wechsler...

Ankylosing spondylitis refractory to tumor necrosis factor blockade responds to tocilizumab.

Surgical Intervention

Surgical treatment is generally regarded to have a low success rate. Many patients fall into the category Failed Back Surgery Syndrome (FBSS). Burton et al ( [1] ) pointed out, "Nerve compression can be relieved surgically but pain due to nerve injury or scar tissue can only be reduced in extent by therapy ...physical and emotional reactivation in chronic pain programmes..." "The...