SURGICAL TREATMENT OF DRUG-RESISTANT EPILEPSY

Abstract

Epilepsy is one of the most common chronic neurological diseases: according to
WHO, about 50 million people worldwide currently suffer from active epilepsy with ongoing
epileptic seizures or the need to take antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), and about 5 million new cases
of this disease are diagnosed annually. According to the results of a large-scale study conducted
in 14 regions of the Russian Federation, the age-standardized prevalence of epilepsy was 3.4
people per 1000 population. This article will describe a specific clinical case of a patient
suffering from drug-resistant epilepsy, examination of his brain and the nature of the surgical
operation performed by the Department of Neurosurgery at Samara State Medical University.