The University of Louisville Hospital Comprehensive Epilepsy Center offers a full range of services in epilepsy. It includes the latest developments in seizure monitoring, diagnosis and treatment. The Center's success rate is high - in many cases achieving a cure for patients who have surgical intervention.

Electrodiagnostic services

• 24-hour continuous video EEG monitoring with scalp electrodes
• 24-hour video EEG with intracranial electrodes
• Intracarotid amobarbital (Wada) testing
• Functional cortical mapping
• Intraoperative electrocorticography

Epilepsy surgery

• Emergency or elective neurosurgery
  • Biopsy and removal of incidental lesions
  • Treatment of cerebral complications of epileptic seizures
  • Management of surgical complications
• Open and stereotactic biopsy
• Surgical resection of epileptogenic structural lesions
• Placement of intracranial electrodes
• Implantation and management of the Vagus Nerve Stimulator

Imaging

• State-of-the-art 3 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• Computerized axial tomography
• Cerebral angiography
• Interictal Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
• Ictal Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT)