Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Neurosurgery in feline epilepsy, including clinicopathology of feline epilepsy syndromes.
- Journal:
- Veterinary journal (London, England : 1997)
- Year:
- 2022
- Authors:
- Hasegawa, Daisuke et al.
- Affiliation:
- Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University · Japan
- Species:
- cat
Abstract
Feline epilepsy is treated with antiseizure medications, which achieves fair to good seizure control. However, a small subset of feline patients with drug-resistant epilepsy requires alternative therapies. Furthermore, approximately 50 % of cats with epileptic seizures are diagnosed with structural epilepsy with or without hippocampal abnormality and may respond to surgical intervention. The presence of hippocampal pathology and intracranial tumors is a key point to consider for surgical treatment. This review describes feline epilepsy syndrome and epilepsy-related pathology, and discusses the indications for and availability of neurosurgery, including lesionectomy, temporal lobectomy with hippocampectomy, and corpus callosotomy, for cats with different epilepsy types.
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