PSYCHOSOCIAL STATUS BEFORE AND AFTER TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY SURGERY
| Autor: | Taner Tanriverdi, Nicole Poulin, André Olivier |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Male Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Neurological disorder Neuropsychological Tests Neurosurgical Procedures Temporal lobe Central nervous system disease Epilepsy Quality of life Convulsion medicine Humans Psychology Epilepsy surgery business.industry medicine.disease Surgery Treatment Outcome Epilepsy Temporal Lobe Anticonvulsants Female Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom business Psychosocial |
| Zdroj: | Neurosurgery. 62:1071-1079 |
| ISSN: | 0148-396X |
| DOI: | 10.1227/01.neu.0000325869.14387.83 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this prospective work was to evaluate the relationship between seizure outcome and psychosocial status in patients who underwent temporal lobe epilepsy surgery for medically intractable seizure. METHODS: The Liverpool Psychosocial Battery, which includes physical, social, and psychological domains, was completed by 63 patients with temporal lobe epiloepsy before surgery, as well as 6 months and 2 years after surgery. The differences regarding the Liverpool Psychosocial Battery doamins were compared between seizure-free and nonseizure-free patients at 6 months and 2 years after surgery. Serial follow-up results were also compared with the baseline. RESULTS: On all measures, patients, showed significantly better scores after surgery compared with the baseline (P |
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