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National Leaders in Epilepsy, Interview with Clint, Liugi Maccotta, MD, and Eric Leuthardt, MD

Clint McMurphy from Makanda, IL was diagnosed with grand mal seizures and epilepsy at the age of 3. His doctors had it under control with medication most of his life, but by the time Clint was in his upper 20s, the seizures became uncontrollable, often making him lose consciousness. Clint had epilepsy that was not responding to medications. Not only were his seizures causing him to lose consciousness; they were impairing his language and his quality of life. Clint, his father and his brother own an excavating company, and the risk of having a seizure on the job forced Clint to stop working. "When you're around heavy equipment and you have a seizure and pass out, it's really not good," says Clint. "So that's when I realized that my options were to completely find another job or get this epilepsy fixed." That's when Clint decided to seek treatment at the Barnes-Jewish and Washington University Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. Over a several day period, Clit underwent testing and monitoring at Barnes-Jewish. He had several seizures while in the epilepsy monitoring unit, and his seizures were captured with video and EEG. This allowed the doctors to pinpoint the part of the brain that was causing Clint's seizures. Neurosurgeons at Barnes-Jewish made a small hole in the brain and used minimally invasive surgery to remove the portion of Clint's brain commonly associated with epilepsy. Since the surgery, Clint is doing great. He is seizure-free and he's gone back to doing what he was doing before his seizures disabled him. "My life has changed drastically since the surgery," says Clint. "Just the other day, I hit day 1,000 from my last seizure. There is no fear in going out to a movie, going out on the town, going to play a pool tournament and worrying about having a seizure." "We really strive to bring patients back to what they were doing before the disease started and bring them back basically to having a full, rewarding life" says neurologist Dr. Luigi Maccotta. "Surgery is one of the few therapies out there that really gives people the opportunity to be seizure-free, meaning no seizures. That is really what makes the difference for patients having an improved quality of life, for patients being able to drive, return back to work, and reach their full potential. And I think that is why surgery is so very important to treating epilepsy." Learn more at: http://www.barnesjewish.org/neuroscie...