Is It Time to Consider Surgery for Your Child's Seizures?
Have two or more anti-seizure medicines failed to reduce or stop your child’s epileptic seizures? This form of epilepsy is called medically intractable or refractory epilepsy, and surgery may be an option.
The Epilepsy Center at Nationwide Children’s Hospital is a leader in epilepsy surgery. We treat the most complex cases using advanced surgical techniques. These surgery options, some of which are only offered at a few places in the country, have been shown to eliminate or greatly reduce the number and severity of seizures.
- Responsive neurostimulation (RNS)
- Vagus nerve stimulation
- Stereoelectroencephalography (sEEG)
- Deep brain stimulation
- Hemispherectomy
- Hemispherotomy
- Corpus callosotomy
You will receive the best care at our Level 4 accredited Epilepsy Center, a designation reserved for programs offering the most specialized care. Our team of epileptologists or neurologists and neurosurgeons use the latest technology to design a treatment plan specific to your child. The team evaluates your child’s seizures at our Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, pinpointing the root cause of the seizures. Speak with our team to learn more about the different surgical options.
