The supervision of postencephalitic epilepsy after viral encephalitis / 中华实用儿科临床杂志

Viral encephalitis(VE), one of important causes of postencephalitic epilepsy, is the common infectious disease of central nervous system.Although there are many researches of the clinical features and the medical effects about VE with epilepsy, it is scarce to find relative reports about the epilepsy in the sequelae stage.VE and epilepsy can cause heavy economic and psychological burden to the patients themselves, their family and society, so the epidemiology, the clinical feature, the therapy, the prognosis and the current status of follow-up studies of postencephalitic epilepsy after VE are summarized in order to provide the basis for the follow-up supervision.

The supervision of postencephalitic epilepsy after viral encephalitis / 中华实用儿科临床杂志

Viral encephalitis(VE),one of important causes of postencephalitic epilepsy,is the common infec-tious disease of central nervous system. Although there are many researches of the clinical features and the medical effects about VE with epilepsy,it is scarce to find relative reports about the epilepsy in the sequelae stage. VE and epi-lepsy can cause heavy economic and psychological burden to the patients themselves,their family and society,so the epidemiology,the clinical feature,the therapy,the prognosis and the current status of follow-up studies of postencepha-litic epilepsy after VE are summarized in order to provide the basis for the follow-up supervision.

Vagus nerve stimulation therapy improves quality of life in patients with intractable postencephalitic epilepsy, a study of five patients

@#Introduction: To evaluate the utility of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy for patients with intractable postencephalitic epilepsy in the reduction of seizure frequency and quality of life (QOL). Methods: We studied five patients with intractable postencephalitic epilepsy, the age ranged from 21 to 46 years. QOL of the patients was evaluated with the questionnaire, QOLIE-31-P. Results: VNS therapy improved seizure frequency in four patients (80%). One patient (20%) had no reduction of seizure frequency. Three patients had improvements in QOLIE-31-P (p < 0.024) and became socially independent. Two other patients continued to be dependent, and have lesser degree of improvements in their QOLIE-31-P scores.Conclusion: VNS is effective for patients with intractable postencephalitic epilepsy and is able to improve the QOL.