European trends in epilepsy surgery

Maxime O Baud1, Thomas Perneger1, Attila Rácz1

  • 1From the Department of Neurology (M.O.B., S.V., F.P., M.S.), and Center for Clinical Research (T.P.), University Hospital Geneva; Department of Neurology (M.O.B.), University Hospital Bern; Wyss Center for Bio- and Neuro-Engineering (M.O.B.), Geneva, Switzerland; Klinik und Poliklinik für Epileptologie (A.R., M.C.P., C.E.), Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Germany; Sahlgrenska University Hospital and Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg (B.R., K. Malmgren), Sweden; UCL Great Ormond Street Hospital (J.H.C., G.M., M.T.), London, UK; Department of Child Neurology (H.J.L., K.P.J.B.), Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands; Department of Functional Neurology and Epileptology (S. Rheims, J.I., P.R., F.M.) and Department of Clinical Epileptology, Sleep Disorders, and Functional Neurology in Children (A.A., P.R.), Hospices Civils de Lyon and University of Lyon, France; Department of Neurology (P.R.), University Hospital Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Neurology (S.A., K.D., C.O.), Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Turkey; Clinic for Neuroscience (M.L.), National Center for Epilepsy, Oslo University Hospital, Norway; Epilepsy Centre, (I.R.), Masaryk University, Hospital Ste Anne, and CEITEC-Neuroscience Centre, Brno, Czech Republic; Kuopio University Hospital and University of Eastern Finland (R.K., L.-M.V.); St. Ivan Rilski University Hospital (P.D., K. Minkin), Bulgaria; Epilepsiezentrum Kork (A.M.S., B.J.S.), Germany; Second Faculty of Medicine (A.K., P.K.,, P.M.), Charles University, Motol University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic; Juhász Pál Epilepsy Centrum (Z.J., D.F.), National Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, Hungary; Reference Center for Refractory Epilepsy (E.C., P.B.), Ghent University Hospital, Belgium; and Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery (S. Rocka, R.M.), Vilnius University, Lithuania.

Neurology
|June 15, 2018
PubMed
Summary

Epilepsy surgery outcomes in Europe have modestly improved over 15 years, with increased surgical volume and shorter disease duration leading to better seizure freedom. Early evaluation is key for continued progress in epilepsy treatment.

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