[Quality of life of patients after epilepsy surgery].

Abstract:

:Drug resistant epilepsy impairs patients' quality of life making social interaction more difficult. Surgical treatment is an option for seizure control in medically refractory patients. We evaluated pre-operative and post-operative quality of life using a standardized questionnaire based on the QOLIE-10. The questionnaire included ten questions dealing with psychosocial and drug's side effects and was applied before surgery and eight months post-operatively. The studied sample comprised twelve consecutive adult patients with epilepsy treated surgically who were seizure free. Differences were found between the pre-operative and post-operative periods in 70% of the questions, with a better post-operative profile. Successful epilepsy surgery has a great impact in the quality of life of these patients.

journal_name

Arq Neuropsiquiatr

authors

Frayman L,Cukiert A,Forster C,Ferreira VB,Buratini JA

doi

10.1590/s0004-282x1999000100006

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1999-03-01 00:00:00

pages

30-3

issue

1

eissn

0004-282X

issn

1678-4227

journal_volume

57

pub_type

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