Hemispherotomy for pediatric epilepsy: a systematic review and critical analysis

AJ Lopez, C Badger, BC Kennedy - Child's Nervous System, 2021 - Springer
Purpose Several variations of functional disconnection surgery have been described for the
treatment of lateralized, hemispheric, drug-resistant epilepsy in children. The purpose of this …

Surgery for intractable epilepsy in pediatrics, a systematic review of outcomes other than seizure freedom

EF Romanowski, N McNamara - Seminars in pediatric neurology, 2021 - Elsevier
To perform a systematic review evaluating reported outcomes for epilepsy surgery in
pediatric patients with pharmacoresistant epilepsy beyond seizure control, including impact …

Naming-related spectral responses predict neuropsychological outcome after epilepsy surgery

M Sonoda, R Rothermel, A Carlson, JW Jeong, MH Lee… - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This prospective study determined the use of intracranially recorded spectral responses
during naming tasks in predicting neuropsychological performance following epilepsy …

Language dysfunction in pediatric epilepsy

FM Baumer, AL Cardon, BE Porter - The Journal of pediatrics, 2018 - jpeds.com
Epilepsy is one of the most common and severe neu-rologic diseases in children, affecting
0.9%-2% of the pediatric population. 1, 2 Children and adolescents with epilepsy and their …

Impact of development and recent‐onset epilepsy on language dominance

M Marcelle, X You, EJ Fanto, LN Sepeta… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Reorganization of the language network from typically left‐lateralized
frontotemporal regions to bilaterally distributed or right‐lateralized networks occurs in …

Pediatric hemispherectomy outcome: adaptive functioning, intelligence, and memory

HA Shurtleff, EA Roberts, CC Young, D Barry… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective Our purpose was to characterize neuropsychological evaluation (NP) outcome
following functional hemispherectomy in a large, representative cohort of pediatric patients …

Immediate termination of electrical status epilepticus in sleep after hemispherotomy is associated with significant progress in language development

G Gröppel, C Dorfer, A Dressler… - … Medicine & Child …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To study the effect of hemispherotomy on electrical status epilepticus in sleep (ESES)
and language development. Method Children with a confirmed diagnosis of ESES prior to …

Predicting language outcome after left hemispherotomy: a systematic literature review

K Lidzba, SE Bürki, M Staudt - Neurology: Clinical Practice, 2021 - AAN Enterprises
Objective Hemidecortication is a therapeutic option in patients with drug-resistant structural
epilepsy. If surgery is performed early enough in left-hemispheric pathology, the plasticity of …

Pre‐and postsurgical cognitive trajectories and quantitative MRI changes in Rasmussen syndrome

SR Rudebeck, S Shavel‐Jessop, S Varadkar… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To quantify the longitudinal cognitive trajectory, before and after surgery, of
Rasmussen syndrome (RS), a rare disease characterized by focal epilepsy and progressive …

Long-term cognitive improvement after functional hemispherectomy

XP Qu, Y Qu, C Wang, B Liu - World Neurosurgery, 2020 - Elsevier
Background To investigate intellectual development after functional hemispherectomy and
to evaluate the favorable or unfavorable factors affecting prognosis. Methods Twenty-three …