Module 2: Living with epilepsy

Surgery

Doctors conducting a surgery.

Some people may be drug-resistant and require other treatments such as surgery.

  • When performing a surgery, the strategy is to identify the area of abnormally discharging neurons (the “seizure focus”) and to remove it when possible.
  • In people with an identified complex partial seizure focus, the success rate of surgery is up to 80%.
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