Hemispherectomy

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344 relevant articles (30 outcomes, 28 trials/studies) found for this Therapy

Description: A neurosurgical procedure that removes or disconnects the epileptogenic CEREBRAL CORTEX of a hemisphere. Hemispherectomy is usually performed for patients with intractable unilateral EPILEPSY due to malformations of cortical development or brain lesions. Depending on the epileptogenic area in the hemisphere, cortical removal can be total or partial.

Also Known As:

Functional Hemispherectomy; Partial Hemispherectomy; Total Hemispherectomy; Hemispherectomy, Functional; Hemispherectomy, Partial; Hemispherectomy, Total

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Therapy Context: Research Results

Operative Surgical Procedures: 4

Neurosurgical Procedures: 580

Cerebral Decortication: 3

Hemispherectomy: 344

Experts

1.	Di Rocco, C: 3 articles (01/2008 - 10/2000)
2.	Wyllie, E: 3 articles (04/2006 - 07/2001)
3.	Bingaman, W: 3 articles (04/2006 - 07/2001)
4.	Chiricozzi, F: 2 articles (01/2008 - 11/2005)
5.	Sacco, A: 2 articles (01/2008 - 11/2005)
6.	Chieffo, D: 2 articles (01/2008 - 11/2005)
7.	Guzzetta, F: 2 articles (01/2008 - 11/2005)
8.	Battaglia, D: 2 articles (01/2008 - 11/2005)
9.	Yang, Zhong-xu: 2 articles (12/2004 - 05/2003)
10.	Luan, Guo-ming: 2 articles (12/2004 - 05/2003)

Related Diseases

1.	Seizures (Seizure) 08/01/2006 - "Hemispherectomy/hemispherotomy is the most effective treatment to control seizure, and it also seems to provide good results on the psychomotor development when performed early, as demonstrated by the literature review and by the reported personal series reported here (20 children)" 11/01/1989 - "Hemispherectomy was performed in two children with sudden and complete recovery from seizures and improvement in psychomotor development" 08/01/2006 - "The efficacy of functional hemispherectomy procedures in achieving seizure freedom appears to be at least as good compared to resective procedures" 04/01/2005 - "Eleven patients underwent functional hemispherectomy, which resulted in fairly good seizure control and improved development" 08/01/1999 - "Hemispherectomy procedures are performed in patients for whom focal cortical resection would be predicted to produce a significant reduction in seizures" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
2.	Epilepsy (Aura) 01/01/1995 - "Hemispherectomy is well recognized as an effective treatment for some types of intractable epilepsy, but the procedure is also known to be associated with significant late complications" 10/01/2001 - "Functional hemispherectomy, a safe and effective therapeutical procedure in medically intractable epilepsy, offers the chance to investigate a strictly unilateral cortical activation in ipsilateral limb movement" 05/01/1984 - "The authors describe a 7-year-old boy with severe epilepsy cured by means of two-stage hemispherectomy" 02/01/2004 - "Few studies have been conducted to compare whether there are perioperative differences based on hemispherectomy technique and/or pathological substrate in pediatric patients with epilepsy" 08/01/2000 - "BACKGROUND: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was utilized to study 7 patients who had undergone hemispherectomy for control of longstanding intractable epilepsy to assess cortical motor reorganization and MEP (motor evoked potentials) ipsilateral to the remaining hemisphere" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
3.	Malformations of Cortical Development 04/01/1991 - "Hemimegalencephaly (HME) is a severe unilateral brain malformation the prognosis of which may be improved by hemispherectomy" 11/01/2004 - "Diffusion property following functional hemispherectomy in hemimegalencephaly." 07/01/2004 - "Eleven out of these 18 children underwent hemispherectomy because of hemimegalencephaly (HME): their mean age was 14.5 months (range 3-56 months); non-HME patients underwent surgery for epileptogenic lesions involving the cerebral hemisphere to a great extent or diffusely" 11/01/2003 - "Cerebral tissue from hemispherectomy in three children (two 4-month-old girls and one 4-year-old boy) with hemimegalencephaly was studied using histochemical and immunocytochemical markers of neuronal and glial maturation and identity" 04/01/2002 - "In extreme situations (eg, hemimegalencephaly), hemispherectomy may be carried out on selected patients" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
4.	Hemiplegia (Spastic Hemiplegia) 10/01/1956 - "Hemispherectomy for infantile hemiplegia; study of the leptomeningeal anastomoses.]" 09/01/2003 - "In all patients with congenital disease, the abolition of motor function in the affected hemisphere was estimated by magnetic MEPs, and the hemiplegia did not deteriorate after functional hemispherectomy (HS) was performed in two of them" 01/01/1999 - "Modes of reorganization of the sensorimotor system in children with infantile hemiplegia and after hemispherectomy." 09/01/1983 - "Four patients with infantile hemiplegia who had undergone hemispherectomy were examined" 12/01/1970 - "More "second thoughts" on hemispherectomy in infantile hemiplegia." Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
5.	Encephalitis (Encephalitis, Rasmussen) 03/01/2006 - "To test more directly whether RIFG activation shifts in a potentially adaptive manner after left hemisphere injury, fMRI studies were performed in a patient prior to and following anatomical left hemispherectomy for the treatment of Rasmussen's encephalitis" 04/01/2008 - "One patient did not improve and went on to have a hemispherectomy but still succumbed to Rasmussen's encephalitis" 04/17/2007 - "Pathology after functional hemispherectomy showed chronic inflammatory features suggestive of Rasmussen encephalitis." 06/01/2005 - "METHODS: We review the long-term follow-up for five children with Rasmussen's encephalitis who underwent a modification of functional hemispherectomy" 06/01/2005 - "Long-term follow-up in children with functional hemispherectomy for Rasmussen's encephalitis." Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
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