Seizure outcome after resective epilepsy surgery in patients with low IQ

• Published in: Brain (London, England : 1878) Vol. 131; no. 2; pp. 535 - 542
• Main Authors: Malmgren, Kristina, Olsson, Ingrid, Engman, Elisabeth, Flink, Roland, Rydenhag, Bertil
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 01.02.2008; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Age of Onset; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Child, Preschool; complications; Epidemiologic Methods; Epilepsies; Epilepsies, Partial - pathology; Epilepsies, Partial - psychology; Epilepsies, Partial - surgery; epilepsy surgery; Female; focal epilepsy; Headache. Facial pains. Syncopes. Epilepsia. Intracranial hypertension. Brain oedema. Cerebral palsy; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Intellectual Disability - complications; Intelligence; Intelligence Tests; Learning Disorders; Learning Disorders - complications; low IQ; Male; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Medical sciences; MEDICIN; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICINE; Mental Retardation; Middle Aged; Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes); Neurology; Newborn; Partial; pathology; Postoperative Complications; Preschool; Prognosis; psychology; seizure outcome; surgery; Treatment Outcome; epilepsy surgery; low IQ; focal epilepsy; seizure outcome; Human; Nervous system diseases; Prognosis; Epilepsy; Cerebral disorder; Convulsion; Surgery; Central nervous system disease; Neurological disorder

Epilepsy surgery has been questioned for patients with low IQ, since a low cognitive level is taken to indicate a widespread disturbance of cerebral function with unsatisfactory prognosis following resective surgery. The prevalence of epilepsy in patients with cognitive dysfunction is, however, high...