SSGH becomes 1st govt hospital in state to perform epilepsy surgeries

About a year ago, the hospital stated, the department operated upon two patients from Madhya Pradesh — an 18-year-old female suffering from seizure since childhood, getting 8-10 attacks everyday and a 45-year-old daily wage labourer with “sudden jerky movements of his right upper limb and face” that had caused an impediment in working and earning his daily bread.

“The 45-year-old was diagnosed with a rare condition known as Epilepsia Partialis Continua (EPC), in which he had partial seizure attacks every few seconds or minutes. This was due to abnormality in his brain known as focal cortical dysplasia, which was at the part of his brain that controlled movement of hands and legs. Therefore, to preserve his hand movements, he was kept awake during the surgery with electrocorticography monitoring and the entire lesion was removed to achieve near complete seizure freedom,” the hospital said.

The other three patients were residents of Vadodara suffering from drug-resistant epilepsy. A team of doctors, including Dr Parth Modi, Dr Ankit Shah, Dr Vinay Rohra and Epileptologist Dr Mihir Parekh, performed the five surgeries.