Epilepsy Surgery

There are few myths are seen in our society and unfortunately awareness about epilepsy surgery is miniscule even in the medical fraternity. Most importantly, routine EEG did not show anything specific means there is nothing we could do further is the most common belief. Secondly, normal report of MRI is mostly cited reason by relatives for not going for further work up.  Actually routine EEG many times does not reveal anything and this is well accepted fact about EEG. Secondly, routine MRI may not pick up more that 50% of anomalies responsible for epilepsy. Hence, we have to go for MRI under epilepsy protocol to see it in more details. Also, positive report rates are higher in centres doing epilepsy work. Third misconception is that we can not do epilepsy surgery in mentally challenged kids. On the contrary, it has been found that after epilepsy surgery and seizure control, learning capability and memory functions of kids improve along with scholastic performance. And last problems is many patients came to us and say that our doctors told us that nothing further can be done about it. Unfortunately, in India epilepsy surgery is performed at very few places and hence many doctors including physicians are not aware about it. This is fortunate that now all world class facilities about epilepsy surgery are available in Pune and we can exploit till last resorts.