Quality of life in elderly patients after surgery for drug-resistant epilepsy - The impact of seizure outcome, neurological deficits and anxiety.

CONCLUSION: Surgery for drug-resistant epilepsy in elderly improves patients' HRQoL. Both seizure freedom and new neurological deficits influence overall HRQoL. Interestingly, anxiety and patients' subjective assessment of postoperative status showed the highest impact on HRQoL in this subpopulation of epilepsy patients.
PMID: 32956942 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - September 17, 2020 Category: Neurology Authors: Delev D, Hakvoort K, Grote A, Neuloh G, Clusmann H, von Lehe M Tags: Epilepsy Behav Source Type: research