Long-term outcomes of epilepsy surgery in school-aged children with partial epilepsy.

The pediatric epileptic spectrum and seizure control in surgical patients have been defined in developed countries. However, corresponding data on school-aged children from developing countries are insufficient. We summarized epileptic surgical data from four centers in China, to compare surgical outcomes of school-aged children with intractable partial epilepsy from China and those from developed countries, and introduce surgical candidate criteria.

Anterior corpus callosotomy in patients with intractable generalized epilepsy and mental retardation.

Aims: To prospectively study outcomes of anterior corpus callosotomy (aCCT) in patients with refractory generalized epilepsy (RGE) and mental retardation (MR), and estimate the effect of preoperative Wechsler Full Scale Intelligence Quotient (FIQ) on surgical outcomes.

Methods: Selected patients with RGE were divided into a moderate MR group (MoMR), mild MR group (MiMR) and no MR group (NMR), and all of them were treated with aCCT. Seizure outcomes were evaluated at the 1-year follow-up (1FU) and 2-year follow-up (2FU), and changes of quality of life (QOL) and IQ were tested at 2FU.

[A preliminary study on the correlation between clinical makers with the length of patients' hypertension history].

Objective: To investigate the correlation between length of hypertension history with plasma level of A Phospholipids Component with the Similar Solubility of Lyso-Phosphatidic Acid (APCSSLPA or briefly AP). So that to farther understand the changes accompanied with prolongation of hypertension history.

Methods: This is a small cross-sectional study.

Measures of bioavailable serum sex hormone levels in aging Chinese by protein chip.

The purpose of this study was to develop a protein chip technique based on receptor binding assays to measure bioavailable serum sex hormone levels (BSSHL). 224 aging healthy Chinese were investigated to get the referenced values of BSSHL for the first time. In the assays recombined sex hormone receptor proteins were jointed to polysaccharide coated slides to make protein chip, and the dose-dependence curves of sex hormone on chip were prepared.