Functional outcomes of pediatric hemispherotomy: Impairment, activity, and medical service utilization

E Harford, A Houtrow, R Al-Ramadhani, A Sinha… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
… of hemispherotomy in a pediatric cohort, including impairments, activity limitations,
utilization of therapies and medical specialist services, and subsequent surgical intervention. …

Hemispherotomy for pediatric epilepsy: a systematic review and critical analysis

AJ Lopez, C Badger, BC Kennedy - Child's Nervous System, 2021 - Springer
… studies where anatomic hemispherectomy or hemicorticectomy … hemispherectomy
versus hemispherotomy, studies that did not include a tissue sparing disconnection (hemispherotomy) …

Pediatric functional hemispherectomy: outcome in 92 patients

J Schramm, S Kuczaty, R Sassen, CE Elger… - Acta …, 2012 - Springer
hemispherectomy or hemispherotomy procedures. Since a large part of our pediatric series
was done using a newer hemispherotomy … a recently developed hemispherotomy technique (…

Hemispherectomy-associated complications from the Kids' Inpatient Database

MZ Koubeissi, TU Syed, I Syed, J Jordan, A Alshekhlee… - Epilepsy research, 2009 - Elsevier
… Carefully selected pediatric patients undergo hemispherectomy (HS) for treatment of
refractory epilepsy. HS is associated with a mortality rate of 0–6.6% across studies, mostly due to …

Trends in outcomes, complications, and hospitalization costs for hemispherectomy in the U nited States for the years 2000–2009

Y Lin, DA Harris, DJ Curry, S Lam - Epilepsia, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… survey of pediatric hemispherectomy hospitalizations in the United States. The numbers
of hemispherectomy procedures have doubled and are concentrated in pediatric teaching …

Cerebral hemispherectomy: hospital course, seizure, developmental, language, and motor outcomes

R Jonas, S Nguyen, B Hu, RF Asarnow, C LoPresti… - Neurology, 2004 - AAN Enterprises
… This study of pediatric cerebral hemispherectomy patients found pre- and postsurgery
differences that varied by pathologic substrate, seizure duration, or postsurgery seizure control. …

Risk factors and results of hemispherotomy reoperations in children

MV Santos, TL Teixeira, ES Ioriatti, U Thome… - Neurosurgical …, 2020 - thejns.org
… experience with hemispherotomy reoperations for refractory hemispheric pediatric epilepsy
… possible anatomical and neurophysiological reasons for hemispherotomy failure, as well as …

Hemispherectomy procedures in children: haematological issues

M Piastra, D Pietrini, E Caresta, A Chiaretti, L Viola… - Child's Nervous …, 2004 - Springer
hemispherectomy were admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) of Catholic
University Medical … an entire hemisphere removed (anatomical hemispherectomy), whereas the …

Functional hemispherotomy for epilepsy in the very young

J Pepper, WB Lo, S Agrawal, R Mohamed… - … : Pediatrics, 2022 - thejns.org
medical treatment, and lack of effective treatment may result in adverse outcomes. Although
functional hemispherotomy is … results after hemispherotomy in children younger than 3 years. …

Comparison of hemispheric surgery techniques for pediatric drug-resistant epilepsy: an individual patient data meta-analysis

JS Chen, WB Harris, KJ Wu, HW Phillips, CH Tseng… - Neurology, 2023 - AAN Enterprises
… This is an IPD meta-analysis (IPDMA) and rigorous comparison of hemispheric surgery
techniques for pediatric DRE. Our primary objective was to compare hemispherotomy