Advanced surgery ends drug resistant epilepsy

The three-hour surgery, involving the removal of the temporal lobes, amygdala, and hippocampus, was performed by a skilled neurosurgical team.
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MADURAI: A 30-year-old man found permanent relief from years of drug-resistant epilepsy after undergoing an advanced surgical procedure at Meenakshi Super Speciality Hospital.

The procedure, known as ‘temporal lobectomy with amygdalo-hip- pocampectomy’, which is rarely performed in South Tamil Nadu, removed the brain tissue responsible for his seizures.

The three-hour surgery, involving the removal of the temporal lobes, amygdala, and hippocampus, was performed by a skilled neurosurgical team.

Dr Narendiran, Senior Consultant, Department of Neurology, explained that the patient’s quality of life had been severely impacted due to frequent multiple seizures.

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