aarogya.com
  • Home
  • Complementary Medicine
    • Ayurveda
    • Homeopathy
    • Naturopathy
    • Acupressure
    • Acupuncture
    • Aromatherapy
    • Batch Flower Remedies
    • Home Remedies
    • Massage
    • Yoga
    • Meditation
    • Reiki
    • Bodywork
    • Medical Palmistry
  • Conditions & Diseases
    • Acute Diarrheal Disease
    • Appendicitis
    • Blindness
    • Brucellosis
    • Chicken Pox
    • Conjunctivitis
    • Dysentery
    • Hookworm
    • Japanese Encephalitis
    • Lymphatic Filariasis
    • Plague
    • Rubella
    • Typhoid Fever
    • Yellow Fever
    • Allergy
    • Arthritis
    • Blood Pressure
    • Computer Health Hazards
    • Chikungunya Fever
    • Dengue
    • Guinea Worm
    • Influenza
    • Leprosy
    • Malaria
    • Poliomyelitis
    • Tetanus
    • Whooping Cough
    • Viral Hepatitis
    • Amebiasis
    • Asthma
    • Bronchitis
    • Diagnostic Tests
    • Cholera
    • Diphtheria
    • Hepatitis
    • Irritable Bowel Syndrome
    • Leptospirosis
    • Measles
    • Rabies
    • Tuberculosis
    • Yaws
  • Family Health
    • Children's Health
    • Diet & Nutrition
    • First Aid
    • Fitness
    • Humor & Trivia
    • Men's Health
    • Preventive Health
    • Senior's Health
    • Senior Citizen Corner
    • Teen’s Health
    • Vets and Pets
    • Women’s Health
  • Health Resources
    • Blood Donation
    • Career Opportunities
    • Daily Health Tips
    • Health Programs
    • Featured Hospitals
    • Medical Education
    • Health Professional's Negligence
    • Medical Tourism
    • Video Eye
    • Rural Health
    • Patients' Rights Forum
  • Insurance
    • Euthanasia
    • Health Insurance
    • Health Insurance Policies
    • Insurance Companies
    • Medical Ethics
    • Medical Jurisprudence
    • Research
    • Telemedicine
    • Compare Health Insurance
  • Sex & Sexuality
    • What is Sex & Sexuality?
    • FAQs
    • Marriage & Pregnancy
    • Sex Education
  • Support Groups
    • Addiction
    • Aids
    • Cancer
    • Epilepsy
    • Swine Flu
    • Blood Search
    • Vivah
    • Health Directory
    • Alzheimer's Disease
    • Medical Support Groups
    • Cardiology
    • Depression
    • Depression Screening Test
    • Diabetes
    • Disability
    • Kidney
    • Obesity
    • Pregnancy
    • Schizophrenia
    • Vitiligo
Aarogya.com
Marathi | Gujarati | Register | Login
  • Home
  • News and Updates
  • Year 2007
  • Surgical Help for Epileptic Patients

Surgical Help for Epileptic Patients

  • Print
Details
Hits: 9212
Epileptic seizures not only affect your body but also make drastic changes in your psychological and emotional life. While most people benefit from medications, there are same for whom there is no respite from “Fits”.

Says Dr. Nusli Ichaporia of Jehangir Hospital and Medical Center, “Every year there are 15,000 people in Pune who develop epilepsy. Of these there are 10 to 20% who have medically intractable epilepsy”.

For these people, medication provides no relief. In these truly resistant type of epilepsy, despite proper choice of the standard drug, addition of new drugs and monitoring of blood levels, the seizures will continue without much change in their pattern of occurrence.

While the scenario may seem pretty bleak for such persons, surgery now provides hope. At the Epilepsy Center at Jehangir hospital, patients can undergo surgery for correction of their condition. In the Epilepsy Surgery program, 13 patients with resistant epilepsy underwent surgery.

The types of seizures that are surgically remediable are Mesial temporal sclerosis, tumors presenting with seizures as a pre dominant symptom, structural defects in the brain mostly from birth, and post brain injury gliosis.

Of the 13 patients, 5 had Mesial temporal sclerosis, and were between 25 to 35 years of age and had resistant epilepsy for 15 to 25 years. Clinically there was no focal neurological defect in most patients and neuro–psychology tests had to be done to show impaired function of the temporal lobe on the side of the sclerosis. Neuropsychological tests are necessary because MTS cannot be detected on CT or routine MRI.

4 patients had tumors, but these are without the usual symptoms of headaches, vomiting or focal neurological deficit typical of tumors. Yet another group of persons had brain injuries that resulted in seizures.

Says Ichchaporia, “With surgery, after a six month period, 85 percent of the patients had a good seizure control, and 90 percent showed an improvement in the quality of life”.

The surgery costs Rs. 30 to 45,000 a compared to $30,000 to 45,000 abroad but for the people suffering from epilepsy, this is more than just an issue about money.

0
Introducing Digital Practice for Doctors & Healthcare professionals
Swine Flu
National Award for Outstanding achievement by a Non-Professional - Tushar Sampat
Health Professional's Negligence
Health Professional's Negligence
Records of published articles in the newspapers helps common people about precautions to be taken while seeking the services from health professionals and also helps health professionals to rectify the negligence.
read more…
Specialties
Common Symptoms


Aarogya Network

aarogya.com aims to be India’s leading comprehensive health information portal. The site has sections, which cover almost all the medical specialties and give useful information on various diseases. To enhance its reach, the content is available in Indian languages too. We were the first health website to introduce online support groups. Addiction support and Epilepsy support are examples of some very active and vibrant communities.

» Click here to see all our support groups

Subscribe to Our Newsletter

 Get health related new information.

Pune Aarogya
Digital Media Dedicated to Healthcare of Punekars

Health Tools

  • Health Directory
  • Message Board
  • Health Calculators
  • Depression Screening Test

About Aarogya.com

aarogya.com aims to be India’s leading comprehensive health information portal. The site has sections, which cover almost all the medical specialties

Read more...

Suggestions

This is YOUR site, so if you have suggestions or feedback on how we can improve it for you, please let us know! We do our best to keep up!

Read more...

User Comments

“My name is Paulette Conners and I just had to send you an email thanking you since one of the pages on your site was very helpful!”

  • About Us
  • Company Profile
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Feedback
  • Disclaimer
  • Sitemap
  • Invite Your Friends

© 2017 www.aarogya.com. All Rights Reserved.