KIMS Secunderabad conducts 1,000 epilepsy surgeries

Hyderabad: The Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), Secunderabad has announced that it has reached a milestone of conducting 1,000 epilepsy surgeries. Epilepsy surgeries are performed among children and adults in whom seizures could not be controlled through medications. While such interventions are not the first line of defence, they are performed when at least […]

Hyderabad: The Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), Secunderabad has announced that it has reached a milestone of conducting 1,000 epilepsy surgeries. Epilepsy surgeries are performed among children and adults in whom seizures could not be controlled through medications. While such interventions are not the first line of defence, they are performed when at least two types of anti-seizures drugs would have failed to control seizures effectively, doctors said.

“Nearly one-third of the patients have Drug-Resistant Epilepsy (DRE) that does not respond to medications. Nearly, half of these patients are potential candidates for epilepsy surgery, as each patient under consideration for surgery participates in a thorough evaluation in the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program before surgery to control seizures is offered,” Dr. Sita Jayalakshmi, senior neurologist, KIMS Hospitals said.

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Every year nearly 5,00,000 are born with epilepsy problems in India and at least 10 per cent of them require surgical intervention. But only 700 epilepsy related surgeries are performed in the country each year. Only one in 1000 patients who require surgery undergo epilepsy surgery in India, says Dr Manas Panigrahi, noted senior neurosurgeon, KIMS Hospitals.

Dr. B. Bhaskar Rao, Managing Director, KIMS Hospitals congratulated the neurology and neurosurgery team for reaching the milestone.

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