The researchers have developed ultra -strength surgical surgery that can be able to surgery for the previously resistant epilepsy.
Global, about 50 million people suffer from epilepsy. In England, epilepsy seizures are The sixth most common reason To accept the hospital. About 360,000 people in the United Kingdom suffer from focal epilepsy, causing frequent seizures in a specific part of the brain.
Many patients successfully treat their condition with medications but for more than 100,000 patients, their symptoms do not improve with medications, leaving surgery is the only option.
Finding brain lesions, an important cause of epilepsy, can be difficult. Puritanial lighting surfaces are strong and powerful are able to determine even small lesions in patients’ brains. These 7T scanners produce MRI more detailed accuracy about brain tests, allowing pests to better discover. If surgeons can see the pests on MRI scanning, this can double the chances of the patient to be free of seizures after surgery.
But 7T lights are also exposed to “Dark spots” known as the leaks in the signal. The researchers now developed a new technology to overcome the problem. Scientists at the Wolson Center for Photography at the University of Cambridge, and Université Paris-Saclay used eight transmitters around the brain, instead of the usual image, to images of MRI “parallel transport”, which greatly reduced the number of black spots.
The first study of the use of this approach, doctors at Addenbroke Hospital, Cambridge, tried this technique with 31 drug -resistant epilepsy patients to see if the 7T parallel scanner is better than traditional 3T scanners in the discovery of brain lesions.
Research, published in the journal Epilepsiaand I found that the scanner that transmits the parallel 7T that was previously identified the invisible structural lesions in nine patients.
The images were also more clear than traditional “individual transmission” images in 57 % of cases.
As a result, 18 patients (58 % of the group) received different management from their symptoms. Nine surgery was served and one of the heat therapy was presented, which uses heat to remove the lesion. Five patients were displayed on the anti -electrical imaging (Seg), which is an expensive and gas technique for the formation of pests using the electrodes that were inserted into the brain.
“The presence of epilepsy that does not respond to anti -activity drugs can have a major impact on patients’ life, and often affects their independence and their ability to maintain a job, “said Dr. Thomas Cope, a neurologist at Cambridge University Hospitals.
“Thanks to this new technique, more patient patients will be eligible for surgery to change life.”
In response to the results, Lee Sander, Medical Director of Epilepsy Society said: “Anything that will improve the lives of people who suffer from focal episode that cannot be managed with the drug to be welcomed.
“With every new technical innovation, it is important that clinical and research employees have access to this equipment to continue developing and new treatments and approaches with colleagues.”
