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After surgery, all patients were seizure free for at least 1 year.
However, the most common diagnoses resulting in difficult intubations were seizure (16.7%), burns (14.7%) and pneumonia (12.3%) (Table 1).
Eighty patients underwent preoperative SISCOM and were seizure free in a postoperative period of minimum 1 year.
In seven patients, one to three seizures were present in the immediate postoperative period but they were seizure free afterwards for the rest of their follow-up, which was at least 1 year.
To rule out this bias, we only included patients who were seizure free at least 1 year after epilepsy surgery, so that the localizing value of the SISCOM is compared to the surgical resection area.
All of the above were seizure activities I personally experienced.
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No patients who were seizure-free at the start of the medication trial experienced an increase in seizures.
Conversely the proportion of patients without post-IH with an AED monotherapy (P = 0.002) and who were seizure-free at the interview (P = 0.012) was significantly higher.
At twelve months, 55% were still on the diet, 23% had a good response, 20% had an excellent response and 7% were seizure-free.
After three months, 83% of them were still on the diet, 26% had experienced a good reduction in seizures, 31% had had an excellent reduction and 3% were seizure-free.
At four years, 16% of the original 150 children had a good reduction in seizure frequency, 14% had an excellent reduction and 13% were seizure-free, though these figures include many who were no longer on the diet.
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