Surgical outcome of a female patient with comorbid epilepsy and psychogenic non-epileptic seizures confirmed with video-EEG monitoring.

ABSTRACT: Despite common comorbidities of epileptic seizure (ES) and psychogenic nonepileptic seizure (PNES), reports regarding the clinical management of the two coexisting disorders have traditionally only focused on non-surgical approaches such as medication and psychotherapy. Epileptogenic zonectomy following comprehensive presurgical evaluation could lead to seizure control and even seizure free in refractory epilepsy patients. However, its effect on PNES which is of clinical significance remains to be explored. Here, we present a favorable surgical outcome in a middle-aged woman with refractory epilepsy with concomitant video-electroencephalograph-confirmed PNES. The patient has been ES free post right-sided anterior temporal lobectomy with unchanged antiepileptic medication. Meanwhile, remark

SUBMITTER: Qiao L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7940943 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature