The most frequent side effect of LITT for mesiotemporal epilepsy is visual impairments, and individuals who are most at risk may have low levels of cerebrospinal fluid in the choroidalfissure, which allows heat to transfer from the hippocampus body to the lateral geniculate nucleus.
<h3>What is laser interstitial thermal therapy ?</h3>
A newly developed method for treating primary and metastatic brain cancers that are difficult to access with traditional surgery is laser interstitial thermal treatment (LITT). In order to perform LITT, a laser catheter must be inserted into the tumour and heated to temperatures high enough to destroy the tumour.
Patients with drug-resistant epilepsy, which entails seizures that don't respond to medicine, can undergo laser interstitialthermal treatment (LiTT), a minimally invasive procedure. Some persons with focal seizures, which are seizures coming from one specific area, may benefit from LiTT.
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