Impact of epilepsy surgery on quality of life and burden of caregivers in children and adolescents.

CONCLUSIONS: Children and adolescents with surgically treated epilepsy reach a good seizure outcome, stabilize in intellectual and adaptive functions, and have an increase in QOL, from the caregiver's perspective. Nevertheless, their burden remains unchanged. Seizure outcome is the main factor for improvement in the QOL. The upgrading of structured questionnaires and QOL instruments specific to pediatric epilepsy can be helpful to assess patient- and caregiver-reported surgical outcomes, allowing for better planning of therapeutic approaches. PMID: 32199346 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - March 17, 2020 Category: Neurology Authors: Leal STF, Santos MV, Thomé U, Machado HR, Escorsi-Rosset S, Dos Santos AC, Wichert-Ana L, Leite JP, Fernandes RMF, Sakamoto AC, Hamad APA Tags: Epilepsy Behav Source Type: research