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ArticleTherapeutic advances in neurological disorders2022

Effective application of corpus callosotomy in pediatric intractable epilepsy patients with mitochondrial dysfunction.

Ji-Hoon Na, Heung Dong Kim, Young-Mock Lee

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Article in Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Mitochondrial Epilepsy, a Challenge for Neurologists.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ji-Hoon NaDepartment of Pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3051-2010
Heung Dong KimDepartment of Pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Severance Children's Hospital, 50-1, Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Korea.
Young-Mock LeeDepartment of Pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, 211 Eonju-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-720, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5838-249X
Yonsei University · KR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Whether epilepsy surgery, such as corpus callosotomy is effective in patients with pediatric intractable epilepsy with mitochondrial dysfunction is controversial, and there is a paucity of literature on this issue. Objective: This study aimed to assess and describe the effective application of corpus callosotomy for treating pediatric patients with intractable epilepsy with mitochondrial dysfunction in a single institution in Korea. Methods: This was a retrospective study of pediatric patients with intractable epilepsy and mitochondrial dysfunction who underwent corpus callosotomy in a single tertiary care center. Ten patients with intractable epilepsy with mitochondrial dysfunction were included, and 10 patients with intractable epilepsy with non-mitochondrial dysfunctions were included as a control group. The outcomes of corpus callosotomy in the two groups were evaluated and compared. Results: Corpus callosotomy was safely performed and was efficacious in reducing seizure frequency in both groups. The group with non-mitochondrial dysfunction showed slightly better treatment outcomes, with greater reductions in overall seizures, traumatic falling seizures, and electroencephalography improvements, but the differences in treatment effects were not statistically significant. Conclusions: Our study is meaningful as it identified the use of corpus callosotomy as a means to save lives and improve quality of life by reducing the frequency of seizures and those associated with traumatic falling in pediatric patients with intractable epilepsy with mitochondrial dysfunction. Larger multicenter studies are necessary to confirm the efficacy of the procedure.

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corpus callosotomyepilepsyepilepsy surgerymitochondrial dysfunctionseizure

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PMID35498367
PMCPMC9039434
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