What happens to cognitive function following surgery for hypothalamic hamartoma?
Neurology current issue
Hypothalamic hamartoma (HH) and gelastic epilepsy is a rare but well-recognized, drug-resistant, epileptic syndrome of early life. Cognitive impairments and behavior disturbance occur commonly in patients with HH and gelastic epilepsy, especially those with progressive seizure and EEG evolution during early childhood. Intellectual disability, autism, and episodic rage are commonly encountered in patients who have evolved a generalized epileptic encephalopathy.1–3
Original Article: http://www.neurology.org/cgi/content/short/81/12/1028?rss=1
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