Botre Abhijeet, Udani Vrajesh, Desai Neelu, Jagadish Spoorthy, Sankhe Milind
Departments of Pediatrics, *Pediatric Neurology and #Neurosurgery, PD Hinduja Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai, India. Correspondence to: Dr Neelu Desai, Pediatric Neurologist, PD Hinduja Hospital and MRC, Veer Savarkar Marg, Mahim, Mumbai 400 016, India.
Indian Pediatr. 2017 Aug 15;54(8):678-680. doi: 10.1007/s13312-017-1133-z.
Management of refractory status epilepticus in children is extremely challenging.
Two children with medically refractory status epilepticus, both of whom had lesional pathology on MRI and concordant data on EEG and PET scan.
Emergency hemispherotomy performed in both patients. A complete, sustained seizure freedom obtained postoperatively.
Emergency surgery is a treatment option in selected cases of drug refractory status epilepticus with lesional pathology and concordant data.
