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Mission Statement
Cleveland Clinic's Epilepsy Center is dedicated to:
- Delivering world class care for patients and families with adult and pediatric epilepsy by providing state-of-the-art diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, and being recognized as a leading academic center of clinical excellence
- Performing high impact clinical and translational research that will lead to advancements in the field of pediatric and adult epilepsy
- Providing excellent training to the most promising future academic pediatric and adult neurologists, epileptologists, neurophysiologists, educators, and other specialists with an interest in epileptology
Why choose Cleveland Clinic's Epilepsy Center?
- Cleveland Clinic has one of the largest and most comprehensive programs in the world for the evaluation and medical and surgical treatment of epilepsy in children and adults. Patients and families, who come to the Epilepsy Center benefit from a unique and multidisciplinary model of care that integrates the expertise of our clinical staff and the availability of cutting-edge technology to enable accurate diagnosis, effective treatment and improved quality of life. The Epilepsy Center brings together a coordinated, multidisciplinary team offering a comprehensive range of skills and knowledge.
- Cleveland Clinic Florida Epilepsy Center provides South Florida and international adult epilepsy patients with comprehensive evaluation and diagnosis.
- Our staff manages more than 2,000 pediatric and 4,000 adult epilepsy patient visits each year.
- Each year, our experienced team monitors more than 600 adults and 500 children in the Epilepsy Monitoring Units. Adult and pediatric epilepsy monitoring is performed in dedicated units to pinpoint the focus of seizures. Our newly expanded monitoring units feature state-of-the art, all digital video-EEG monitoring equipment, and are fully staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
- We perform more than 200 adult and 100 pediatric epilepsy surgeries each year. In April 2010, Dr. William Bingaman, epilepsy neurosurgeon, performed his 1,000th pediatric epilepsy surgery.
- One year after temporal lobe resection 80% of Cleveland Clinic patients continue to be seizure-free; at the 10-year mark 68% continue to be seizure free.
- A variety of medical and surgical treatment options for the control and prevention of seizures is used by clinicians at the Epilepsy Center. Treatments are based on an individualized assessment of the nature, type and severity of the patient’s disorder. In March 2009, Cleveland Clinic launched the first SEEG (stereoelectroencephalography) program in North America, for patients with uncontrollable epileptic seizures.
- Since 2008, Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center has been among a select number of institutions in the world with MEG (magnetoencephalography), a technique used to better identify epileptic sources in patients in whom the area of the brain causing the seizure would otherwise be difficult to identify.
To make an appointment call 216.636.5860 or Toll-Free 866.588.2264
News
- »With Help Teenagers Can Manage Epilepsy
When Etrudy Mitchell's daughter had her first epileptic seizure at 16 months old, it started off looking like a run of the mill temper tantrum.
"We thought that she was just wanting something that she couldn't have," Mitchell tells host Michel Martin on NPR's Tell Me More. But within moments, the situation took a dramatic turn. "She turned blue. The body turned limp, and we dialed 911."
- »Students Raise Money for Epilepsy Research to Help Classmate
Nine-year-old fourth-grader Krista Malina would lie awake at night worrying about her sick friend and trying to think of ways to help her.
Krista's friend and classmate at Chestnut Hill Elementary School, Madelyn Petersen, 10, has been suffering from epileptic seizures for years, and it was no secret.
- »Women and Epilepsy
- »Shedding an Artistic Light On Seizures
It began at the age of three – a bout with encephalitis, an irritation and swelling in the brain that led to the development of scar tissue on her hippocampus, the body's memory bank – and it was at the age of three that Sarah Brown had her first epileptic seizure.
"I had three in that night, the Clonic Tonic Seizures, which are the Grand Mall Seizures, the big ones affect your whole body and you start convulsing," says Sarah Brown.
