• Nishanth Sadashiva, Raju Kadam, Arivazhagan Arimappamagan, Malla Bhaskara Rao, Ravindranadh Chowdary Mundlamuri, Kenchaiah Raghavendra, Ajay Asranna, Lakshminarayanapuram Gopal Viswanathan, Narayanan Mariyappa, Karthik Kulanthaivelu, Sandhya Mangalore, Chandana Nagaraj, Jitender Saini, Rose Dawn Bharath, Jamuna Rajeswaran, Anita Mahadevan, Parthasarathy Satishchandra, and Sanjib Sinha.
• Department of Neurosurgery, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, India.
• World Neurosurg. 2023 Mar 1; 171: e57e63e57-e63.

BackgroundCorpus callosotomy (CC) is a surgical palliative procedure done for a selected group of patients with drug resistant epilepsy (DRE) to stop drop attacks and prevent falls.MethodsWe performed a retrospective chart review of consecutive patients who underwent CC for DRE with drop attacks at our center between 2015 and 2019. Clinical, imaging details and surgical findings were noted. Clinical outcomes and functional status were evaluated.ResultsDuring the study period, 17 patients underwent corpus callosotomy (Male: Female 14:3). The mean age at surgery was 10.3 years (standard deviation - 5.85, interquartile range [IQR] = 6.5). The mean age at onset of seizure was 2.23 years (standard deviation - 3.42, IQR = 1.5). Preoperative seizure frequency ranged from 2 to 60 attacks per day (median: 20, IQR= 36). All patients had atonic seizures/drop attacks. One patient underwent anterior CC and 16 underwent complete CC. Three patients had complications in the postoperative period. The median follow-up was 26 months. All patients had cessation of drop attacks immediately following surgery. One patient with anterior CC had a recurrence of drop attacks for which she underwent completion CC. Another patient had recurrent drop attacks 3 years later and was found to have a residual callosal connection. Three patients had complete seizure freedom and 4 patients had a <50% reduction in seizure frequency.ConclusionsOur study lends additional support to the efficacy of CC in patients with DRE, with the cessation of drop attacks. It also provided a reasonable reduction in seizure frequency. Complete CC led to better control of drop attacks.Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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