Live epilepsy surgery by French neurosurgeon at KIMS

Renowned neurosurgeon from Rothschild Foundation, Paris, France, Prof. Olivier Delalande will supervise a video based demonstration of the live epilepsy surgery at KIMS Hospital in Secunderabad on Wednesday.

Prof. Olivier along with other eminent neurosurgeons, neurologists and pediatric neurologists from India will be in the city on the eve of NSICON 2015 for the ‘Live Epilepsy Surgery Workshop and Symposium’.

The event, organised by KIMS Hospitals in association with Brain and Spine Society, is themed “How Do I Select the Patient and How Do I Do It?” Sessions of the workshop will touch on topics like how early can one get Epilepsy surgery scheduled, complications during the surgery, discussing case studies for clear understanding and others and will also have a cadaveric demonstration of Epilepsy surgery.

Speaking on the issue, Dr B Bhaskar Rao, MD and CEO, KIMS Hospitals informed that presently, only four centres other than KIMS Hospitals undertake epilepsy surgeries regularly in India and less than 500 epilepsy surgeries are performed annually. “This has resulted in a growing pool of patients with drug resistant epilepsy, which account for the 80 per cent of the health care costs for epilepsy,” said the doctor.