A prospective study to evaluate clinical, neurophysiological and neuropsychological consequences of epilepsy surgery in patients with symptomatic focal epilepsy refractory to pharmacotherapy
Recruiting
- Conditions
- G40.2Localization-related (focal)(partial) symptomatic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with complex partial seizures
- Registration Number
- DRKS00021602
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitätsklinikum Göttingen Klinik für Anästhesiologie und Klinik für Neurologie
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 25
Inclusion Criteria
Medication refractory epilepsy (as of current Guidelines of the ILAE);
- Decision for resective epilepsy surgery based on an interdisciplinary case-conference
Exclusion Criteria
Idiopathic generalized epilepsy
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Seizure frequency 12 and 24 months after resective epilepsy surgery
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Quality of life 3, 6, 12 and 24 months after resective epilepsy surgery; Neuropsychology 6, 12 and 24 months after resective epilepsy surgery; prognostic value of EEG for the success of epilepsy surgery; predictive value of diagnostic Tools in epilepsy surgery