“Thirty to forty percent of patients with epilepsy continue to have seizures despite medications,” said Matthew Mian, MD, the functional neurosurgeon at Swedish Medical Center who performed the procedure. “For this group of patients, seizures can impact quality of life, and they even carry a risk of sudden death. Using minimally invasive procedures such as SEEG to help characterize a patient’s seizures can be an important step in treating them. In some cases, it allows us to select a therapy that can even be curative.”
