Iranian Physicians Use Japanese Method to Perform 1st Surgery to Stop Seizure in Children

“The last method of treating these tumors was done based on use of very thin tubes that are guided by the navigation system and are used to destroy and burn the convulsive connections of this mass and disconnect it from the central brain system,” Mansour Parvaresh, a specialized neurosurgeon, told ANA.

He stated that the neurosurgery team of Iran University of Medical Sciences, consisting of specialists from Firouzgar and Rasoul Akram hospitals, implemented this treatment method for the first time in Iran.

“We were able to perform surgery on an 8-year-old child with brain seizure tumor, which was very successful and the child recovered without any complications,” Parvaresh underlined.

“This treatment was conducted with the same equipment, technique and method as in Japan, and we are monitoring the child's condition and so far, no problem has occurred,” he added.

A brain tumor might cause a seizure or epilepsy, which means having repeated seizures. This might happen because of the tumor creating a chemical imbalance in the brain, or causing the cells around the tumor to develop differently.

Up to 2 in 3 people diagnosed with a brain tumor will experience epilepsy or at least one brain tumor seizure.

That may sound like a lot, but it’s important to remember that not everybody who is affected by a brain tumor will experience seizures or epilepsy.

For those that do, the symptoms and severity can be different for each person.

A seizure happens when there’s a burst of abnormal electrical activity that disturbs the way the brain normally works, mixing up the messages. This causes a variety of symptoms.

Seizures are the most common first symptom leading to a brain tumor diagnosis in adults. However, you may only have seizures for a short period of time, for example, before treatment or due to swelling of the brain after surgery.

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