薬剤耐性焦点性のリセクティブ・エピレプシー手術:レビュー
Barbara C Jobst1, Gregory D Cascino2
1Department of Neurology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
JAMA
|January 21, 2015
まとめ
エピレプシー手術は,薬剤耐性エピレプシー患者の発作を大幅に軽減します. 効果的ではあるが,長期的な結果と患者の紹介については,さらなる研究が必要である.
科学分野:
- 神経外科は神経外科です.
- 神経学 神経学とは
- エピレプトロジーはエピレプト学です.
背景:
- の手術は,抗薬に反応しない焦点発作の治療オプションです.
- 患者の選択と長期的な結果を理解することは,手術の利点を最適化するために不可欠です.
研究 の 目的:
- 焦点性エピレプシーのリセクティブエピレプシー手術の結果をレビューする.
- 外科介入から最も恩恵を受ける患者のサブグループを特定する.
- エピレプシー外科手術の未充分利用の理由を探求する.
主な方法:
- MedlineとCochraneのデータベース (1993年−2014年) の包括的な文献検索が行われました.
- 対象となった研究は,ランダム化臨床試験,メタ解析,システマティックレビュー,および大規模症例シリーズ (>300人以上) を含む.
- システマティック・レビューでは,認知,精神,生活の質,心理社会的結果も評価した.
主要な成果:
- ランダム化試験では,継続的な治療と対比して,手術による発作自由率が有意に高いことが示されました (58%-73% vs 0%-8%).
- 全体として,医学的に不耐性であるの患者の34%から74%は,手術後に発作のない状態を達成しました.
- 結果は,側頭葉の,海馬筋硬化症,良性腫瘍に対してより好意的であり,手術前死亡率は低い (0.1%-0.5%) であった.
結論:
- エピレプシー手術は,医学的に耐性のあるエピレプシーの発作活動を減らすのに有効な治療法です.
- 長期の認知,精神,生活の質に関する結果については,さらなる調査が必要である.
- 効果が実証されているにもかかわらず,患者からのの手術への紹介は稀です.
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