Informational video produced by the Good Samaritan Hospital & Medical Center in the 1980s about temporal lobe epilepsy surgery. Includes graphic live footage, so viewer discretion advised - do not watch if you get queasy over medical procedures. According to a study by Jutlia, et al. (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2002;73(5):486494), 46% of patients with unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy became seizure free, 10% had only postoperative auras, and 15% had rare seizures on follow-up for 5.4 (SD 2.6) years for 140 consecutive adult patients operated on for drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy between 1975-1999 at Zurich University Hospital. With minimum post-operative follow-up of greater than 1 year, 66.9% of patients free from disabling seizures (Engel class I) compared with 57.1% who were completely seizure and aura free (ILAE class 1). 70% of the patients received reductions in their antiepileptic drug treatment at the time of the last available follow-up review. Complications related to the surgical procedures were rare.
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