Table 5.
Perception of brain surgery.
| “Frequent negative outcomes” of brain surgery | |
|---|---|
| Patients (%) | |
| Death | 60 (55) |
| Memory loss | 60 (55) |
| Paralysis | 39 (36) |
| Stroke | 28 (26) |
| Personality change | 26 (24) |
| Willing to have epilepsy surgery if seizure freedom were guaranteeda: | Patients (%) |
| No prior brain surgery (n = 94) | 46 (49%) |
| No prior brain surgery and ≥ 1 seizure in the past 4 weeks (n = 53) | 27 (51%) |
a
“If your epilepsy doctor told you that brain surgery was guaranteed to stop your seizures without causing brain damage, would you be willing to have surgery?”