title: [Quality of life of patients after epilepsy surgery].
abstract: Drug resistant epilepsy impairs patients' quality of life making social interaction more difficult. Surgical treatment is an option for seizure control in medically refractory patients. We evaluated pre-operative and post-operative quality of life using a standardized questionnaire based on the QOLIE-10. The questionnaire included ten questions dealing with psychosocial and drug's side effects and was applied before surgery and eight months post-operatively. The studied sample comprised twelve consecutive adult patients with epilepsy treated surgically who were seizure free. Differences were found between the pre-operative and post-operative periods in 70% of the questions, with a better post-operative profile. Successful epilepsy surgery has a great impact in the quality of life of these patients.
authors.affiliation: Serviço de Cirurgia de Epilepsia, Hospital Brigadeiro, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Frayman
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cukiert
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Forster
authors.forename: V B
authors.initials: VB
authors.lastname: Ferreira
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Buratini
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires