Publications by authors named "Camilo Garcia Gracia"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigated how to manage patients with medically resistant epilepsy caused by temporal encephaloceles, focusing on the importance of ancillary testing before surgery to improve surgical outcomes.
- Researchers analyzed medical records from the Cleveland Clinic over two decades, specifically looking at patients who had surgery for drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy linked to encephaloceles.
- Results showed that 63% of the 19 patients had successful seizure control one year post-surgery, with detailed patterns of seizure activity revealed through advanced EEG evaluations, indicating a need for personalized surgical strategies.
Objective: The objective of this study was to compare the accuracy of clinical judgment in predicting seizure outcome after resective epilepsy surgery relative to two recently published statistical tools [the Epilepsy Surgery Nomogram (ESN) and the modified Seizure-Freedom score (m-SFS)].
Methods: Details of presurgical evaluations of 20 patients who underwent epilepsy surgery were presented to 20 epilepsy experts. The final surgical treatment was also disclosed.
Objective: We aim to develop a new scale that predicts seizure outcomes after resective epilepsy surgery.
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed patients who underwent surgery for medically refractory epilepsy at our center between 1999 and 2012. Four predictive outcome indicators were selected: preoperative seizure frequency, history of generalized tonic-clonic seizures, brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and epilepsy duration.