Quality of life long after temporal lobe epilepsy surgery

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria L. Benevides ◽  
Jean Costa Nunes ◽  
Ricardo Guarnieri ◽  
Carla Pauli ◽  
Peter Wolf ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy ◽  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Epilepsy Surgery

Predictors of meaningful improvement in quality of life after temporal lobe epilepsy surgery: A prospective study

Epilepsia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 755-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Pauli ◽  
Marcelo Liborio Schwarzbold ◽  
Alexandre Paim Diaz ◽  
Maria Emilia Rodrigues de Oliveira Thais ◽  
Charles Kondageski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy ◽  
Prospective Study ◽  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Epilepsy Surgery ◽  
Meaningful Improvement ◽  
A Prospective Study

scholarly journals Postoperative Evaluation of the Quality of Life, Depression, and Anxiety of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Cohort: A Single Institute Experience in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuriz Bakhtiar ◽  
Surya Pratama Brilliantika ◽  
Jacob Bunyamin ◽  
Muhammad Thohar Arifin ◽  
Hardian Hardian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy ◽  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Epilepsy Surgery ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Limited Resource ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Seizure Freedom ◽  
Depression And Anxiety

Background: Besides seizure control, quality of life (QoL) should be considered as an equally important outcome for epilepsy surgery service providers. The paucity of QoL reports from developing countries has enlarged the representation gap between wealthy countries and countries with fewer resources. In this study, we evaluated postoperative QoL in the Indonesian drug-resistant epilepsy cohort where the epilepsy surgery service faces limited resource availability.Methods: We evaluated the QoL in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy who underwent surgery in our epilepsy surgery center in Semarang, Indonesia, from 2001 until 2015. The follow–up period started in 2018 through 2019. Postoperative QoL, depression, and anxiety were evaluated with self-reporting questionnaires including the Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory-31, Beck Depression Inventory-II, and Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scales.Results: Forty returned questionnaires were included in the analysis (male 25, 62.5%; mean age 27.6 ± 9.05 years). The seizure-free cohort (n = 22, 55.0%) reported higher scores in most QoL dimensions particularly adjustment, overall QoL, and seizure worry compared to those with persistent seizures. The overall QoL level was correlated with seizure freedom and surgery type. QoL dimensions were negatively correlated with anxiety and depression levels.Conclusions: Postoperative seizure freedom was a major factor of postoperative QoL level. Besides seizure freedom, anxiety and depression levels were also negatively correlated with QoL levels in the Indonesian population.

scholarly journals Employment and quality of life in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis: is there a change after surgical treatment?

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neide Barreira Alonso ◽  
Auro Mauro Azevedo ◽  
Ricardo Silva Centeno ◽  
Laura M. F. Ferreira Guilhoto ◽  
Luis Otávio Sales Ferreira Caboclo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Surgical Treatment ◽  
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy ◽  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Epilepsy Surgery ◽  
Hippocampal Sclerosis ◽  
Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Mesial Temporal Lobe

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to evaluate in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) with hippocampal sclerosis (HS): (1) employment patterns before and three years after epilepsy surgery and their impact in Quality of Life (QOL); (2) demographic and clinical variables associated with employment. METHODS: Data from 58 patients with diagnosis of refractory MTLE with HS who had corticoamygdalo-hippocampectomy were analyzed. The subjects answered to Brazilian validated version of the Epilepsy Surgery Inventory (ESI-55) before, and three years after surgery. In a semi-structured interview, sociodemographic and clinical characteristics were obtained. Changes in employment after surgery were classified in one of the three categories: (i) improvement status: those who were unemployed, no-formal employed, students, housewives and subjects who have never worked to employed category; (ii) unchanged status: no change in occupation; this category included subjects who were employed before and after the surgery, housewives, students, and the group who remained unemployed, receiving ill-health benefits or retired after the surgical treatment; and (iii) worsened status: loss of employment. RESULTS: Employment status did not show any significant change after surgery: in 51(87.9%) it remained unchanged, in six (10.3%) it improved, and one patient (1.7%), who was employed before the surgery, retired after that. In a subgroup of 22 patients employed after surgery, ten (45.5%) were seizure-free, seven (31.8%) had only rare auras, and five (22.7%) had seizures. In the group of improvement, 12 patients (70.5%) had no-formal employment and five (29.5%) had a formal job before surgery. After three years, 14 (63.6%) of 22 subjects were formally employed. Our data suggested that the employability was strongly correlated (p<0.05) with a positive perception of health-related quality of life measured by ESI-55, before and after surgical evaluation. CONCLUSION: Our study demonstrated in a homogeneous group of MTLE with HS, a modest, but positive relationship between surgical outcome and work gain, and that QOL had strong correlation with the fact of being employed.

Long-term outcome and determinants of quality of life after temporal lobe epilepsy surgery in adults

2009 ◽  
Vol 86 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 191-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alaa Eldin Elsharkawy ◽  
Theodor May ◽  
Rupprecht Thorbecke ◽  
Steffi Koch-Stoecker ◽  
Antonia Villagran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy ◽  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Epilepsy Surgery ◽  
Term Outcome ◽  
Long Term Outcome

scholarly journals Life adjustment after surgical treatment for temporal lobe epilepsy

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscila Camile Barioni Salgado ◽  
Fernando Cendes
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy ◽  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Epilepsy Surgery ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Presurgical Evaluation ◽  
Preoperative Expectations ◽  
Anxiety Depression ◽  
Postoperative Adjustment

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the patients' life adjustment after epilepsy surgery, through instruments of quality of life (QoL), anxiety, depression, preoperative expectations and postoperative life changing. METHODS: Thirty-six adults who underwent temporal lobe epilepsy surgery were interviewed before surgery, and 6 and 12 months after surgery. RESULTS: For all patients, epilepsy surgery gave rise to an evolving process of postoperative adjustment, what means that they were satisfied with surgery results, and that their expectations were reached. The improvement was seen in their QoL (p=0.004), anxiety (p=0.019) and depression (p=0.001), which was associated to their perception of positive life changing. The inexistence of depressive and anxiety symptoms and the good QoL after surgery predicted the perception of positive life changing. This study could predict a total of 56.5% of aspects involved in the perception of positive life changing after epilepsy surgery, what seems that other variables may be involved in this process. The patients' status before surgery (expectations, QoL, anxiety, depression and seizures frequency) did not predict the life satisfaction after surgery, what means that when patients evaluate their actual lives they do it looking for daily aspects and do not tend to compare to their lives before surgery. CONCLUSION: The findings of the present study have implications for the evaluation of life adjustment postsurgery, calling attention to measures of preoperative expectations, anxiety, depression and QoL. The strength of these contributions highlights the importance of registering the patients' feelings and opinions during the presurgical evaluation and may help the health providers to understand the aspects necessary to improve the patients' quality of life.

Anxiety symptoms are the strongest predictor of quality of life in temporal lobe epilepsy

Seizure ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Marise Lima ◽  
Juliana Gois ◽  
Maria Luisa Paiva ◽  
Silvia Vincentiis ◽  
Sylvie Moschetta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy ◽  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms
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