Women with drug-resistant epilepsy: Surgery or pregnancy first?

Sai Satish KandrajuManna JoseReshma A SaliniVeena PavithranJoseph Samuel PeedicailRamshekhar N Menon Ashalatha RadhakrishnanAjith CherianMathew AbrahamGeorge C VilanilamSanjeev V Thomas

Published in: Epilepsia (2020)

WWE-SF can expect better control of seizures and decreased AED burden during pregnancy than WWE with focal epilepsies managed with medicines only. WWE who undergo surgery for epilepsy before their pregnancies can expect fewer seizures and lower AED burden during pregnancy.

Keyphrases

drug resistant
minimally invasive
coronary artery bypass
multidrug resistant
acinetobacter baumannii
preterm birth
temporal lobe epilepsy
surgical site infection
pregnancy outcomes
pregnant women
atrial fibrillation
pseudomonas aeruginosa
acute coronary syndrome