Epilepsy Surgery Program

The Epilepsy Surgery Program provides advanced surgical treatments for children with medication-resistant epilepsy.

The evaluation of a child for epilepsy surgery is a delicate process to identify the part of the brain that is involved in generating seizures. Resecting this brain tissue aims to render the patient seizure free or at least eliminate disabling seizures.

The pre-surgical evaluation consists of the following steps:

Consultation with pediatric epileptologists
Admission to the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU)
V-EEG monitoring to localize seizures
Brain MRI
PET scan, SPECT
Neuropsychology assessment
Panel discussion of each case by Epilepsy Multidisciplinary Team of Experts to determine the best surgical approach

Surgical Procedures offered at Sidra Medicine:

Temporal lobectomy
Lesionectomy
Extratemporal resections
Hemispherectomy
Corpus callosotomy
VNS implant

Our Electrodiagnostic Facilities

State-of-the-art 6 bed EMU: 24-hour V‐EEG monitoring
Invasive recording with intracranial subdural and depth electrodes
Continuous supervision by EEG technologist or epilepsy staff nurse
Functional cortical mapping by stimulation of subdural electrodes
Intraoperative electrocorticography (ECOG)

Our Neuroimaging Facilities

3T MRI (epilepsy protocol)
Interictal PET
Ictal SPECT
Functional MRI (developing)
Intra-operative MRI
Intra-operative neuro-navigation

Our outcomes are internationally comparable, with a strong track record of successful results. To read more about our clinical outcomes, please click here.