Centromedian thalamic nucleus with or without anterior thalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation for epilepsy in children and adults: A retrospective case series

There are over 45.9 million people living with epilepsy worldwide [1]. Around 30 % of patients with epilepsy are drug-resistant [2]. Decreased quality of life, medication side effects, psychiatric comorbidities, and increased health-care utilization are burdens of living with epilepsy [3,4]. Individuals with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) are at higher risk of epilepsy-related morbidity and mortality [5,6]. Epilepsy surgery remains the cornerstone of DRE management, but treatment options are limited for patients whose seizures have difficult to localize onset zones, when epilepsy surgery has failed to control seizures, or when they have multifocal or generalized onset seizures.
Source: Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy - Category: Neurology Authors: Source Type: research