21-year-old Maximov from the Kherson Region in the Hospital of St. Panteleimon 1 TMO removed brain cells that had “failed” and provoked sudden seizures. At the same time, doctors preserved all its functions. The boy suffered from epileptic seizures for 13 years, but one neurosurgical operation changed his life.
The boy’s first epileptic attacks began when he was 8 years old. Since then, he has undergone dozens of tests, but none of them could explain the cause of the disease. Various combinations of antiepileptic drugs did not help, and every week, several times, convulsive attacks found him at home, at work and in public places.
After an examination at the Center for Neurosurgery and Neurology of the Hospital of St. Panteleimon turned out to be idiopathic epilepsy, which happens quite rarely. In other words, a disorder of brain activity characterized by sudden, recurrent convulsive or nonconvulsive seizures.
“In order to eliminate a long-standing disease, our neurosurgeons Dmytro Shchybovik and Andriy Dyakiv worked together with Kostyantyn Kostyuk, head of the department of functional neurosurgery and modulation of the A.P. Romodanov Institute of Neurosurgery of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Doctors removed the patient’s part of the temporal region of the brain, which provoked sudden convulsions. Therefore, they performed anterior temporal lobectomy, amygdalo- and hippocampectomy.
In the 2 weeks after the operation, Maksym has not lost consciousness for a single day, and this means only one thing – he will be discharged and life without antiepileptic drugs!” – informed the Hospital of St. Panteleimon 1 TMO.